Ken Stanford

Northeast Georgia Health Partners (Health Partners, a Gainesville-based PPO (preferred provider organization), has announced additional insurance coverage options for its members in light of Consumers Life Insurance Company's decision to leave the Georgia Market Jan. 1, 2014.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 24,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 334,000, a sign that steady job gains should continue.

Senators are ready to offer students a better deal on their college loans this fall, but future classes could see higher interest rates.

Cooler temperatures are within sight but likely not soon enough and cool enough for a large swath of the country hit with dangerously high temperatures for days as the largest heat wave of the summer failed to budge from South Dakota to Massachusetts.

In a heated confrontation over domestic spying, members of Congress said Wednesday they never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America. And they threatened to curtail the government's surveillance authority.

The spacewalking astronaut who came close to drowning in a flooded helmet searched for clues in his spacesuit Wednesday, in hopes of understanding the unprecedented water leak.

Memory problems that are often dismissed as a normal part of aging may not be so harmless after all, according to new research.

Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve's timetable for reducing its bond purchases is not on a "preset course" and the Fed could increase or decrease the amount based on how the economy performs.

The White House has invited Charlie Auvermann, adjunct instructor of management for the Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia, to its Champions of Change event July 23.

Former President Jimmy Carter says unlimited political contributions are "legal bribery of candidates."