Ken Stanford

Lauren Hockaday, a Firefighter/EMSP student at Lanier Technical College from White County, has been named the college’s Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership winner.

The City of Cornelia will use a $1.2 million low-interest loanfrom the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority to replace the city's current water meters.

Thirty-one Hall County School District students have been selected as semifinalists for the Governor’s Honors Program.

Flowery Branch officials will break ground Tuesday for the town's new city hall.

The Gainesville City School System will conduct a second round of Kindergarten registration during the week of February 6-10, from 8:00-4:00 at the elementary school in which students are zoned.

A section of I-85 near Buford was closed for a time Saturday afternoon because of a "sizeable" grass and woods fire.

North Georgia Technical College recently announced photography instructor Jim Loring of Clayton as the winner of the 2017 Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction.

A former Hall County fire marshal, who now works for the state Department of Juvenile Justice, has been appointed to the Executive Board of the Emergency Management Association of Georgia.

Four Hall County sheriff's deputies and a Gainesville police officer saved the lives of five overdose victims in separate incidents in the past two months by administering naloxone, a medication that reverses the effects of opioids.

Gateway Domestic Violence Center recently welcomed its 2017 Board of Directors, including six new members.