Ken Stanford

Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) welcomes 16 new physicians to Gainesville.

Investigators with the Hall County Sheriff's Office, Internet Crimes Against Children Unit (ICAC), have arrested a Cobb County man after the completion of a four-month Internet chatroom undercover operation.

Gainesville City Hall confirms that three people whose jobs are directly affected by the slowdown in development have been laid off.

Shares of Six Flags Inc. fell Friday on growing speculation that the theme park operator may be forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the company said it could not meet a looming financing obligation.

Nearly 60 dogs seized from a north Georgia kennel earlier this month are almost ready for adoption.

Stocks are mostly higher as investors try to extend Wall Street's advance into a fourth straight day, following more encouraging news about banks and better-than-expected trade data.

The anchor for the "new" downtown Sugar Hill will be a new City Hall.

Lake Lanier lost more than water in 2008. The number of visitors visiting the federal reservoir also took a tumble.

The Georgia General Assembly worked late into the night Thursday on dozens of bills. It was a hectic make-or-break day that legislators set as a deadline to either pass dozens of bills or toss them aside for the year.

The recession continues to hammer homeowners particularly hard in Western states and Florida. But the worst is now also spreading to places like Oregon, Idaho and Illinois. Meanwhile, there were 201 new foreclosure filings in Hall County during February.