Ken Stanford

A noontime fire Saturday damaged the building housing Blockbuster Linen Services in Suwanee.

A noontime fire Saturday damaged the building housing Blockbuster Linen Services in Suwanee.

Georgia tax collections took a nosedive in February.

Toccoa Falls College (TFC) will change the structure of its academic programs next fall.

Wall Street gave up an early gain and edged lower Friday as the severity of U.S. job losses began to register with investors.

Once a wild and reckless thoroughfare, and the dirt road drag way for the delivery of illegal corn liquor, Georgia Highway 197 from Lake Burton to Clarkesville now teems with galleries, restaurants, studios and antique stores. But the legacy of these North Georgia hills still echoes like a big-block V8 engine rumbling in the distance on a moonlit night.

In an effort to reduce costs and meet continued state budget cuts, North Georgia College & State University will implement a campus-wide four-day schedule this summer.

The North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF) will award 75 scholarships through 17 funds to graduating high school seniors in 2009.

The government says the nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs.

The state Department of Labor has begun mailing an additional $25 per week to more than 180,000 jobless Georgians who have a valid unemployment insurance claim with the state.