Ken Stanford

Snowfall in Georgia this week ranged from a tenth of an inch in a swath of counties through the middle part of the state to a foot or more in some parts of northwest Georgia.

Athens-Clarke County police Thursday closed a section of the sidewalk on East Broad Street because of falling ice.

Senior Republicans want to further block Georgia from embracing a Democratic health overhaul by requiring that a GOP-dominated state legislature approve any expansion of a government-funded health care program.

A traffic jam deliberately orchestrated by members of Gov. Chris Christie's staff that caused days of gridlock in northern New Jersey appeared not to lead to anyone's death or seriously compromise their medical care, according to a comprehensive review by The Associated Press of five hours of emergency dispatch audio, interviews and dozens of pages of call logs.

The winter storms barreling across much of the United States are undercutting the nation's economy just when signs of stronger growth had begun to emerge.

A Gainesville man well-known to many "green thumbs" in the area has died.

The Hall County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has closed after being open the past several days as various county agencies and officials monitored the winter storm.

Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia announces Jane Reynolds Hemmer has been selected as the 2014 Gainesville Woman of Distinction.

For those who shivered through January, this may be hard to believe: Nationwide, the average temperature for the first month of the year was about normal because a warm West offset a cool East.

You don't have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant is adding a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.