Ken Stanford

An update on Midtown and a presentation dealing with weapons in city parks are among the items on the agenda for Thursday's Gainesville City Council work session.

Visitors at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) can now find respite in the Pope Family Garden, which was dedicated Monday.

A big decline in food costs helped hold down wholesale prices in September, contributing to a 0.1 percent decline, the first drop since April.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing for a four-year delay to changes to the federal government's flood insurance program that are threatening to sock thousands of people with unaffordable premium hikes.

First Financial Holdings, Inc. Tuesday reported record third quarter operating income as it released unaudited results of operations and other financial information for the three-month and nine-month periods ending September 30, 2013. First Financial is the parent company of Cornelia-based Community Bank & Trust which has several offices in northeast Georgia, including Gainesville

Prospects for comprehensive immigration legislation this year grew murkier on the eve of an all-out push by a coalition of business, religious and law enforcement to persuade the House to overhaul the decades-old system.