Ken Stanford

For more than four decades, development of hotels and attractions on Jekyll Island has long been governed by a seemingly simple law mandating that 65 percent of the state park's land must remain unspoiled. Now Georgia lawmakers are being asked to make a big change to the key policy that has guided conservation on the island getaway since 1971.

If you are tired of the below normal temperatures North Georgia has been experiencing since the first of the year, brace yourself because it looks like at least another week of them.

Opponents of Georgia's private probation system say companies supervising low-level offenders are earning untold amounts of money in fees while using law enforcement offices as collections agencies when they go unpaid.

The man whol built the Hall County Board of Education building on Green Street in Gainesville has died.

Dr. Traci Lawson McBride, a retired Hall County Schools educator, has announced plans to run for the Hall County School Board, Post 2 (South Hall).

The debate in Adel Saturday night involving GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Saxby Chambliss was the first of several planned between now and the May 20 primaries.

The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency's unions.