Ken Stanford

Hall County did it a year ago... now the City of Gainesville is moving to unpaid, mandated furlough days.

The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits falls to the lowest level in 10 months, evidence that job cuts are easing as the economy slowly heals.

A new analysis is showing just how unusual the recent heavy rains and flooding in Georgia were.

North Hall High School Principal Joe Gheesling says the break in the case of the widely-publicized burglary at the school on Oct. 15 came Tuesday afternoon when he got a phone call.

A visiting Superior Court Judge has ruled against a group of Pendergrass residents who were looking to oust their mayor.

Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.

The Atlanta mayor's race won't be decided until December 1.

Here are the results from some of the contested races in northeast Georgia in Tuesday's elections:

Investigators believe a setting, blinding sun and use of a cell phone by one of the drivers may have contributed to a fatal accident Monday involving a car and a Forsyth County school bus.

Voters in northeast Georgia this morning were keeping election workers busy in some places while elsewhere it had been slow.