Ken Stanford

The stock market was edging higher at midday as talks continue in Washington over ending a budget impasse that has partially shut down the government and threatened the U.S. with default.

Georgia DOT announces crews finished paving and the new lanes are open for use on State Route 53 at Thompson Road/Etowah River Roads.

The 2013 Master Craftsmen Awards will be presented to 10 skilled tradesmen from North Georgia on Thursday, October 17 at Featherbone Communiversity (Lanier Tech MDC Rotunda).

Investors are waiting to see what happens next with debt-ceiling negotiations in Washington, just like everybody else.

The 2013 Main Street Gainesville Christmas ornament was released Friday. It features Poultry Park.

The Georgia Department of Labor is hosting events in five cities throughout the state to connect veterans with employers who are looking for skilled workers.

Harry Norman, Relators Forsyth/Lake Lanier Office, recently raised more than $12,000 for Gateway Domestic Violence Center and other battered women shelters in the area.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan Friday for urgent talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai as an end of October deadline looms for completing a security deal that would allow American troops to remain in Afghanistan after the end of the NATO-led military mission next year.

Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to eliminate the scourge that has haunted generations from World War I to the battlefields of Syria.