Ken Stanford

Dawson County Schools Superintendent Nickey Gilleland plans to retire June 30.

Fifty members of the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) - including one each from Gainesville, Cumming and Toccoa - have returned home after serving as part of the largest security detail for a presidential inauguration in our nation’s history.

Tyson Foods Inc., which has a huge poultry processing plant in Cumming and whose chicken segment has been weighing down the meat producer, lost $112 million dollars for the first quarter.

If all goes according to plan, the grand opening for Suwanee’s new City Hall will be celebrated Saturday, March 28 (with staff moving in a few weeks before).

Home Depot Inc. says it's cutting 7,000 jobs and closing its smaller Expo chain as the recession continues to batter the nation's housing market - and two other unrelated announcements will mean another 16,000 layoffs in the drug manufacturing and cellular phone industries.

Pfizer Inc. is buying rival drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 billion deal that will increase its revenue by 50 percent, solidfy its No. 1 rank in the troubled industry and transform it from a pure pharmaceutical company into a diversified health care giant.

The average statewide price of gasoline increased about 19 cents in the past 30 days, according to a survey compiled by AAA Georgia.

Gainesville Police are investigating a robbery was this afternoon at an Atlanta Road business.

More than 1,200 advocacy groups - includng the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) - have delivered a letter to the Obama Administration outlining priorities for immigration reform from the pro- immigrant, pro-immigration perspective.

Georgia Department of Human Resources Commissioner B.J. Walker says the state will need to invest money in its mental health system to comply with a U.S. Department of Justice settlement agreement.