Ken Stanford

The Gainesville-based Georgia Mountains YMCA hopes its first-ever participation in Giving Tuesday will generate funds it can use for new programs next year.

Two University of North Georgia faculty members received the 2018 McBrayer Award, which is awarded to the best paper presented at the Georgia Political Science Association (GPSA) annual meeting.

A week of daytime lane closures is planned starting Monday at the construction site for the new Browns Bridge.

Federal investigators have concluded that a plane crash in April 2018 on Browns Bridge Road just west of Gainesville was caused by a partial engine failure.

Some City of Gainesville water customers in the South Hall area are dealing with "taste and odor" issues, according to a posting on the city's Water Resources Department's Facebook page.

The University of North Georgia is getting a one million dollar private donation to be used for digital scoreboards at its baseball, soccer and softball fields.

Former presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to be the keynote speaker next year at the annual Todd Starnes Faith & Freedom Celebration at Truett McConnell University.

The Gainesville/Hall County HEAT Unit recently swept the traffic awards at the Northeast Traffic Enforcement Network awards banquet.

The rains ended Saturday just in time for the start of Jingle Mingle, the official kickoff of the holiday season in downtown Gainesville.

A six-million dollar bridge project in northeast Georgia is included in $31 million worth of construction contracts recently awarded by the Georgia Department of Transportation.