Ken Stanford

The City of Oakwood is firing back in the face of criticism of a pending annexation request.

Mexican consulates around the country plan to launch an effort next week to educate their citizens on their labor rights when working in the United States.

Four people were shot to death and a 4-year-old was wounded at a home in Gwinnett County, and a man being sought in the shootings was arrested when he showed up at the scene afterwards, Gwinnett County Police said.

More rain fell in Gainesville Friday than on any single day since mid-July.

The completion of the Exit 16 reconstruction in Oakwood has been pushed back to "sometime in October."

The City of Gainesville has kicked off an urban forestry project.

Immigrant and civil rights advocates are asking the Obama administration to put an end to a federal program that lets local police and sheriff's departments enforce the country's immigration laws.

Consumer spending edged up in July with help from the popular Cash for Clunkers program, but household incomes, the fuel for future spending increases, were flat.

The Gainesville City Council is still interested in moving ahead with the controversial "island" annexations, although two public hearings next week have had to be scrapped.

Congressman Nathan Deal used a speech in Gainesville Thursday to address the ethics complaint that was filed against him a day earlier saying it is based on "misinformation."