Ken Stanford

Nearly 1,000 red-shirted Wells Fargo volunteers and friends were out in force across Georgia last Saturday as part of a 20-city initiative helping a broader variety of non-profit groups than in the first two years of the company's Community Service Super Saturday.

A raccoon that came in contact with a dog in North Hall recently has tested positive for rabies.

Hall County Parks and Leisure Services will host a public tour of the proposed Cherokee Bluffs Park from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 29.

Taking climate change efforts into his own hands, President Barack Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property.

The jet stream, the river of air high above Earth that generally dictates the weather, usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction.

The stock market recovered much of a nearly swoon Monay caused by the latest signs of distress in China's economy and rising U.S. bond yields.

President Barack Obama campaigned from the White House for immigration legislation on Monday in advance of a Senate test vote on a bill calling for more than $30 billion worth of new security measures along the border with Mexico and offering a chance at citizenship for millions living in the country illegally.

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday decided to make it harder for Americans to sue businesses for retaliation and discrimination, leading a justice to call for Congress to overturn the court's actions.

The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday.