Ken Stanford

The Chestatee/Chattahoochee RC&D (Resource Conservation & Development) Council will help host a one-day conference Oct. 30 on Georgia's Forest Action Plan.

Sandwiched between Amherst College (#15) and MIT (#17), Brenau University has been named one of the country's 20 "most rigorous" colleges and universities by The Daily Beast.

President Barack Obama's selection of a former top Pentagon lawyer to head the Homeland Security Department suggests the agency will be stepping back from its preoccupation with immigration to focus more on protecting the nation from attack.

As authorities hunt for two killers who were mistakenly freed by bogus court documents, prison officials and prosecutors across Florida scrambled to make sure no other inmates had been let out early.

People in the San Francisco Bay area faced a frustrating commute Friday as workers for the region's largest transit system walked off the job for the second time in four months.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed an age discrimination lawsuit against a north Georgia county, claiming older employees were targeted during layoffs.

The Justice Department Thursday brought fresh charges against four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors, resurrecting an internationally charged case over a deadly 2007 shooting on the streets of Baghdad.