Ken Stanford

A bishop in a historically black denomination is urging hundreds of churches to lock their doors during services after police said a white 16-year-old Gainesville girl collected several kitchen knives as part of a methodically planned attack on black churchgoers.

Gainesville and Dahlonega are represented on the Leadership Georgia Class of 2020 which was announced last week.

The drought, which had a firm grip on most of the southeast, including Gainesville, just a few weeks ago continues to recede in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina.

Jackson Electric Membership Corporation system control coordinator Greg Mathis received a life-saving award from Georgia EMC during the state association’s annual meeting in Savannah this month.

There's something new this fall at the University of North Georgia's Mobile Literacy Clinic in Gainesville - a two-part lesson focusing on literacy and science.

Roger Grabman has been elected president of the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers.

Abandoned docks are showing up all over Lake Lanier and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking the public's help in alerting Corps officials when one is spotted.

First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Gainesville and the rest of Georgia were up in October compared to a month earlier, according to state Labor Commission Mark Butler.

Gainesville's Gateway Domestic Violence Center has been approved for a renewal of a three-year U.S. Department of Justice grant totaling $350,000.