Ken Stanford

The Walmart Bass Fishing League (BFL) is headed to Lake Lanier Oct. 10-12 for one of six Regional Championships.

Legacy Link, the area Agency on Aging for a large part of northeast Georgia, is reminding current and soon-to-be Medicare clients that this year's OPEN enrollment period begins Oct. 15.

Investors stayed calm on the first day of a partial shutdown of the U.S. government Tuesday and sent the stock market modestly higher.

Republican governors who oppose President Barack Obama's insurance overhaul have been largely silent on a day when consumers are beginning to peruse newly launched federal online health exchanges.

The online insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul struggled to handle the volume of new consumers Tuesday, the first day of a six-month open-enrollment period.

Pope Francis opened a landmark meeting Tuesday on reforming the Catholic Church, saying he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that gives hope to the poor, the young and the elderly like his namesake St. Francis did.

Hall County property tax bills went out Monday, according to tax commissioner Darla Eden.

The fallout from the government shutdown is hitting close to home as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) prepares to close campgrounds and day-use parks on Lake Lanier.

Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a protracted dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law reached a boiling point, forcing some 800,000 federal workers off the job. Obama readied a midday statement to the nation as Democrats and Republicans maintained a blame-each-other duel on Capitol Hill.