Ken Stanford

The stock market is edging higher in early trading as investors shrug off a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

Michael Williams has announced his candidacy for State Senate District 27, which includes nearly all of Forsyth County.

A gala will be held later this week at Lake Lanier Islands to benefit a Gainesville-based orphan fund.

The Blue Sky Concerts return to downtown Gainesville Wednesday.

World stock markets held their nerve Tuesday despite the fact that the U.S. government was forced to partially shut down after Congress failed to approve a funding agreement and U.S. futures are up slightly.

Millions of Americans will be able to shop for the first time Tuesday on the insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care reforms, entering a world that is supposed to simplify the mysteries of health coverage but could end up making it even more confusing, at least initially.

Thirty-four young migrants are in U.S. custody after trying to enter the United States without documents in the latest round of what is becoming a new tactic in confronting what they consider unjust U.S. immigration policies.

The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study going out Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group.