Ken Stanford

Lake Lanier Islands will bring a touch of the Great White North to the Deep South with the debut of SnowWorld this winter.

More people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, but the increase wasn't sharp enough to disrupt the job market's positive momentum.

The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border.

The average price of gasoline will be below $3 a gallon in 2015, the Energy Department predicted Wednesday. If the sharply lower estimate holds true, U.S. consumers will save $61 billion on gas compared with this year.

Big banks weighed on the stock market Wednesday, tugging major indexes back from record highs.

The first of two newly-scheduled public input meetings on a proposal to extend a Hall County sales tax will be held Thursday

More than 5,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday, marking another grisly toll in the epidemic.

New York City officials don't yet know why a cable malfunctioned and left a scaffold dangling precariously on the 1 World Trade Center tower, where two window washers were stuck for nearly two hours before a dramatic rescue.

Eight Gainesville area business people were recognized Wednesday at the annual "Entrepreneurs - Masters of Innovation" ceremony at Featherbone Communiversity.

Health workers on the front line of the Ebola crisis say the need for urgent help isn't letting up, as Congress begins considering President Barack Obama's $6.2 billion emergency aid request to fight the disease.