Ken Stanford

The North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF) recently awarded $163,250 in scholarships to 26 high school students from the Gainesville and Hall County school systems who are pursuing a higher education this fall.

The crisis in Syria, arms control and missile defense headline what are expected to be chilly talks between top U.S. and Russian foreign and defense chiefs, a sit-down tainted by the case of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, which led President Barack Obama to cancel his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The State Department has warned Americans not to travel to Pakistan and evacuated nonessential government personnel from the country's second largest city because of a specific threat to the consulate there, a U.S. official said Friday.

First it was bars, restaurants and office buildings. Now the front lines of the "No Smoking" battle have moved outdoors.

Georgia's sales tax holiday, planned to coincide with back to school shopping, is coming up Friday and Saturday.

The National Association of County Information Officers
(NACIO) has recognized two Forsyth County government communications tools for
excellence, through the 2013 NACIO Awards of Excellence Competition.

A growing wildfire chewed through a rugged Southern California mountain range on Thursday, damaging buildings, threatening as many as 600 homes and forcing some 1,500 people to flee.

A small Florida Panhandle town best known for its annual Worm Grunting Festival is at the center of an investigation into charges the white city clerk suppressed the black vote in an election where the black mayor lost by a single vote and a black city commissioner was also ousted.

Republicans are counting on some Southern comfort to win Senate control next year.

Carl Lawson, a longtime business and civic leader in Gainesville, has died.