Ken Stanford

West Hall won the Region 7AAAA One Act Play Competition and now advances to compete for the 2016 GHSA AAAA One Act State Championship.

South Forsyth High School’s Carol Sikes was awarded the Dwight Love Award by the Georgia Council of Teacher of Mathematics recently.

A fire at Suburban Mobile Home Park Park off Highland Terrace displaced four people, according to Hall County Fire Services.

Organizers say this year's Trick or Treat on the Trail in Midtown, sponsored by the Gainesville Parks and Recreation Department, had the largest turnout in the histroy of the event.

Fire engulfed a car transport tractor-trailer on I-85 near Buford Saturday afternoon and spread to a nearby wooded area, touching off a 110-acre woods fire, and closing the southbound lanes for several hours.

The Medical Center Auxiliary has funded the development and printing of more than 15,000 customized books – enough to give one to every baby born at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville and Braselton over the next three years.

Gainesville High School senior Anna Diaz was selected as a Commended Student in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Hall County Central Communications/E911 will conduct an audible test of the severe weather warning system Wednesday morning about 10:00.

The number of initial claims for unemployment insurance in September in Georgia decreased 16.7 percent compared to August, while in metro Gainesville they were down 13 percent.

The Great Decisions foreign policy discussion group will begin its 46th year at Piedmont College Jan. 10.