Ken Stanford

The state Labor Department reports that the unemployment rate for metro Gainesville is up .4 percent from a month ago, and is now at 5.8 percent.

Unprecedented numbers of early voters in Florida and other southern states are prompting election officials to add equipment, extend schedules and hand out water and chairs to make people comfortable as they wait for hours to cast their ballots.

Republican John McCain is trying to keep Florida from swinging to the Democrats with a cross-state bus tour and a series of "Joe the Plumber" events aimed at blue-collar workers.

Asian stocks fell for a second day Thursday, with South Korea's market sinking more than 7 percent, as a barrage of downbeat company forecasts deepened fears of a global recession.

An advocacy group for rivers says cities across the Southeast can save millions of gallons of water a day through conservation.

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr appealed Wednesday for the support of Republican-leaning conservatives by declaring his Republican rival John McCain is going to lose the election.

Lake Hartwell has dropped to an all-time low as the drought continues, as Lake Lanier continues to approach its all-time low.

A Gainesville City Council vote opens up an industrial site in the Airport Industrial Park.

European stock markets opened sharply lower Wednesday following losses in Asia and Tuesday's reversal on Wall Street amid spreading pessimism over corporate earnings around the world.

The state Department of Transportation (DOT) has opened the last section of HOV lane in the I-85/316 project.