Ken Stanford

Several District 2 Public Health employees from Gainesville recently participated in a walk to raise awareness about tuberculosis.

Four high school students - including one each from Flowery Branch and Chestatee high schools - have been selected by Jackson EMC (JEMC) are to spend a week in Washington, D.C. this summer for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

The administrator of a statewide weather network says its financial picture has improved in the months since it planned to end operations in 2011 because of a loss of state funding and key personnel.

U.S. officials are expanding a program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding.

North Korea's military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats aimed at South Korea and the United States.

Italy's highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox's acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the United States.

Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic "no." But now now they are increasingly hedging their objections.

GOP strategist Karl Rove says he can imagine a Republican candidate in the next presidential campaign supporting gay marriage.

Two of the loudest voices in the gun debate say it's up to voters now to make their position known to Congress.

A plan to send extra water down creeks and streams in southwest Georgia is creating conflict in the General Assembly.