Ken Stanford

Georgia's 48th Infrantry Brigade - a national guard unit which returned from Iraq last year and includes a Gainesville-based outfit - has received orders for deployment to Afghanistan.

Demorest and Braselton are getting half-a-million dollars each from the state Department of Transportation for streetscaping.

Federal health officials are revising their estimate of how many people are infected by HIV each year, and advocacy groups say the number could rise by 35 percent or more.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday he is confident there will soon be an agreement to help thousands of homeowners avoid mortgage defaults by temporarily freezing their interest rates.

The campaign to get more Hispanics registered to vote in Georgia for next year's elections has taken a new turn.

Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day - or nearly $1 million a minute.

If the Georgia-Alabama-Florida water wars were a poker game, Georgia's high card might be an agreement it secured in 2003 for rights to about a quarter of the water in Lake Lanier, but with the governors of the three states meeting in a few days for White House-backed mediation, Georgia is in danger of losing its ace in the hole.

The Hall County Board of Education will hear a report Monday on a proposal to expand mandatory drug testing of high school athletes to include other areas of extra-curricular activities.

A Gainesville convenience store employee was stabbed during a robbery Saturday morning in the store's parking lot.

A generation after America decided to get tough on kids who commit crimes, sometimes locking them up for life - the tide may be turning