Ken Stanford

Things will be a bit more complicated than usual this weekend for motorists at the Exit 16 construction site in Oakwood.

A government survey finds Mexican emigration dropped 13 percent in the first quarter of 2009 an ongoing trend as the U.S. economic recession discourages Mexicans from crossing the border in search of work.

One person is missing and two others injured when fire destroys several units of a Cherokee County condominium complex.

There were no injuries in a Hoschton house fire Tuesday afternoon but a family of four was left homeless by the blaze.

Prosecutors say the Dawsonville man charged in a terrorism conspiracy was dubbed the leader of a group that planned to join a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.

Brazilian military pilots spotted an airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday as they hunted for a missing Air France passenger jet that carried 228 people.

A Gwinnett county sheriff's deputy is dead after a motorcycle crash in Barrow County.

The city of Clinton, Ark., sued Pilgrim's Pride Corp. for $28.5 million in federal court on Monday, accusing the poultry processor of potentially turning the city into a ghost town by idling its plant there.

The world's leading provider of ATMs is relocating its corporate headquarters to Georgia and bringing more than 2,100 jobs to the state over the next five years.

A federal judge has granted a request by news organizations for access to copies of audio and video court records key to the case against a former Georgia Tech student and Dawsonville resident on trial for conspiring to aid terrorist groups.