Ken Stanford

A Christian music recording artist from Gainesville has won this year's Kansas City Christian Music award for Song of the Year.

Immigrant rights advocates on Monday launched the Georgia arm of the national "Reform Immigration FOR America" campaign at a mid-morning news conference in Atlanta.

The drought in Georgia is now confined to all or parts of seven northeast counties as the drought continues to lose its grip on the state and on the heels of what was the wettest spring in north Georgia since 2005.

A missing Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday.

The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's attempt to require prospective voters in the state to provide proof of citizenship.

A group organized by Gov. Sonny Perdue is recommending that the state's community colleges merge with the technical college system.

Georgia gas prices moved up again last week but not as much as the week before.

Power was out in a section of north Gainesville for a little over an hour Sunday morning.

We first heard the term decades ago: The "Sun Belt" was just starting a run of phenomenal growth. It conjured a sunny state of mind as well as a balmy place on the map... warm climate areas from southern Califorina through the desert Southwest and into the Deep South. But some swaths of the region are now suffering as severely as anywhere in the current recession.

The Obama administration is ordering a one-year moratorium on most road-building and other development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests.