Ken Stanford

A mission group in Gainesville is sending a medical and search-and-rescue team to Haiti later this week.

The end-of-the-year numbers of new housing starts last year in Hall County, which we reported a few days ago, seem bleak but one man close to the construction industry here there is a bright side.

Ten thousand immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts and was marked by a clash between a small group of protesters and police officers.

A Georgia woman and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information.

A Gainesville business man hopes building the Glade Farm Reservoir could reduce the difference between city and county water rates.

A Gainesville attorney is one of two people nominated for a vacant superior court judgeship in Northeast Georgia.

Metro Gainesville recorded one of the sharpest drops in initial unemployment insurance claims between December 2008 and December 2009: 25 percent, according to the state Labor Department.

Morris Publishing Group, owner of 13 daily newspapers including The Athens Banner-Herald, The Augusta Chronicle, Savannah Morning News and Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Gov. Sonny Perdue on Friday proposed a budget that continues to slash state spending and recommended three more unpaid furlough days for teachers and other state employees over the next six months.

A new government estimate says swine flu has sickened about 55 million Americans and killed about 11,160.