Ken Stanford

Gwinnett commissioners adopted a budget for 2009 on Tuesday, while cutting 115 jobs and postponing added others.

Long-time Brenau University history professor Jim Southerland this week begins his new job as vice president of academic services and dean of the faculty

Sixteen counties in north Georgia - including Hall - are now under a Flash Flood Warning as torrential rains continue across the region.

Tyson Foods says its president and chief executive, Dick Bond, is stepping down immediately.

A Republican lawmaker plans to call for a $1 per pack increase to Georgia's tax on cigarettes.

More than 100,000 people passed through the Atlanta Amtrak station last year, the first time that's happened in recent memory.

Georgia's lieutenant governor says he doesn't like the idea of loosening the state's concealed weapons laws to allow guns in more public places.

Kohl's plans to hire about 300 full- and part-time workers when it opens two new stores in the spring in north metro Atlanta.

Companies interested in participating in the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce 2009 Get Fit Stay Fit 5K Corporate Challenge Run/Walk are being asked by chamber officials to attend a Team Captains Meeting on January 22.

A group of students and teachers from West Hall Middle School is traveling to Washington for the presidential inauguration later this month as is the Flowery Branch High School band.