Ken Stanford

Test scores for Georgia’s elementary and middle school students improved in all areas this year, but most dramatically in the crucial subjects of mathematics and science.

In the face of a taxpayer revolt over a proposed property tax rate hike, the Gwinnett County Commission has approved the first in a series of reductions the county's new budget and it's five-year financial plan.

Hall County drug agents discovered a dismantled methamphetamine lab at a house on Atlanta Highway in Oakwood Tuesday.

As the Hall County Board of Education nears completion of its annual evaluation of Superintendent Will Schofield, chairman Richard Higgins is negotiating an extension of Schofield's contract.

Consumer prices rose less than expected in May, fresh evidence the recession is keeping inflation in check.

A 23-year-old woman is missing in Lake Allatoona after a jet ski accident.

There has been an outbreak of swine flu at at least four north Georgia youth camps... one day after an outbreak at a Boy Scout camp in Asheville, N.C.

A South Hall man has died of injuries received in a motorcycle crash.

State and federal officials have signed off on 11 sewer and water projects costing $91 million that are designed to improve infrastructure systems throughout Georgia.

Lumpkin County voters overwhelmingly approved extension of a Special Purpose Location Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) for education Tuesday.