Ken Stanford

The City of Gainesville recently received $300,000 from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs to provide homeowner repair and down payment/closing cost assistance to first time homebuyers, and announced guidelines for use of the money.

Gwinnett County is cutting 93 positions from two government departments as part of a plan to slice $35 million out of its budget.

Stock prices are firm in early trading.

State Rep. Doug Collins of Gainesville will apparently be allowed to vote from Iraq when the next state House speaker is picked on Monday.

The government says the nation's unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as employers slashed 240,000 jobs.

Two-dollar-a-gallon gasoline has returned to Gainesville.

European markets opened higher today after stocks in Asia turned in a mixed performance.

Gainesville Mayor Myrtle Figueras is among those elated at the election of Barack Obama as this country's first African-American president. But, she says, not just for her race, but for the country as a whole.

Plans for an expansion of the Sterling on the Lake development have won initial approval from the Flowery Branch City Council.

The African country of Rwanda will be home to a Gainesville man for the next two weeks.