Ken Stanford

Traffic was to be down to one lane most of today at the Clarks Bridge construction site in North Hall as crews begin pouring a fourth caisson for the new bridge.

Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday.

Even with all the upsets during the first four days of March Madness, I think the whole thing would be a lot more interesting if the initial match-ups were decided at random.

The White House wants the National Security Agency to get out of the business of sweeping up and storing vast amounts of data on Americans' phone calls.

Looking for any signs of life in the quicksand-like mud below, searchers in helicopters scanned a huge debris field Sunday trying to find 18 people still unaccounted for following a deadly landslide that ripped through homes and blocked a river, threatening flooding, in rural northwestern Washington state.

A swim marathon at the Frances Meadows Aquatic and Community Center Saturday raised more than $300 for the American Cancer Society's Hall County Relay for Life.