Ken Stanford

Gainesville is one of six cities across Georgia participating in the state's Nutrition and Physical Activity Plan this month.

Mother Nature put on a fireworks show of her own about dusk Monday night, threatening fireworks displays in the Gainesville area, but the show at the American Legion went off as planned.

The federal government's Wild Horse & Burro Program is coming to Gainesville for the first time ever next week.

Recovery teams have pulled the body of a second fisherman from the waters of Lake Rabun.

The Georgia Municipal Association has singled out the City of Gainesville as a model for other cities and towns in the state for cultural diversity.

Beginning this fall, three federal campgrounds in northeast Georgia will be converted for day use only.

A retired longtime Hall County Emergency Management Agency Director, Bill Banks, died Saturday.

Summer usually brings thoughts of lazy days, no school work and no responsibility for many middle school students, but not the 160 or so that will be participating in the Gainesville College Summer Scholars Institute (SSI).

The Hall County Planning Commission will be asked to okay nearly 100 new homes in three planned subdivisions when it meets Tuesday.

A Lumpkin County man has been named to the newly created state Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors.