Ken Stanford

The number of newly laid off Americans signing up for unemployment benefits for the first time fell sharply last week.

South Hall is still in the running for a police car assembly plant that would employ 1,500.

Saying it was doing so in response to the long-running string of negative news on the national economy, the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce Wednesday announced the first phase of a community marketing initiative that highlights a much different – and much more positive – story coming out of Gainesville and Hall County.

Sen. Carl Levin says a key vote has been postponed to strike out $1.75 billion added to the defense spending bill for more fighter jets from Lockheed Martin in Marietta.

Not a single metro area in Georgia recorded an increase in jobs over the past year.

Fifteen Hall County school buses, parked at Johnson High School for the summer, were vandalized overnight Tuesday.

Georgia's jobless rate hit its highest ever recorded in June 10.1 percent.

People in Jefferson can now sign up online for extra police patrols of their homes while they are out of town.

Stuff the Bus is the name of a new campaign by United Way of Hall County.

An Iranian passenger plane crashed Wednesday in northwest Iran, killing all 168 people on board, state media reported.