Ken Stanford

Governor Sonny Perdue has scheduled water stakeholder meetings in Columbus and Albany next week... geared to Georgians downstream from Lake Lanier, which is at the center of the ongoing water dispute with Alabama and Florida.

A Gainesville man and a Buford woman have been named to separate state boards by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Gwinnett County police report making 24 burglary arrests during July after detectives were assigned 90 residential and business burglaries to investigate... and one of the suspects was also wanted in Jackson and Barrow counties.

The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.

The Forsyth County Board of Education hopes to open the state's first K-through-12 "virtual" school.

Suddenly Georgia's "drought monitor map" is showing some color again... and that means only one thing: things are getting drier than usual again.

A new government report shows the economy sank at a pace of just 1 percent in the second quarter of the year.

A free Fantasy 5 ticket has translated into a $1,298,332 jackpot win for a Jackson County man.

A group of detainees at a Louisiana immigration detention center have begun three-day hunger strikes to protest poor conditions there, immigrant advocates said.

U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, a candidate for governor, commended Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday for his latest attempt to restart water negotiations with the governors of Alabama and Florida.