Ken Stanford

The North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF) announces the addition of eight new members to its Board of Directors for 2013.

City officials are keeping quiet, citing ongoing litigation, but an arbitration panel has ruled in favor of Gainesville in a dispute with Hall County over plans by the city to annex 115 pieces of property.

Gainesville Parks and Recreation is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt at the Midtown Greenway on Sunday, March 24 at 2:00.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell to a seasonally adjusted 340,000 last week, driving down the four-week average to its lowest level in five years. The drop is a positive sign ahead of Friday's report on February job growth.

Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts.

North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.

A Republican senator and tea party favorite from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to take control of the chamber and block Senate confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director.

Arkansas soon will have the nation's most restrictive abortion law - a near-ban on the procedure from the 12th week of pregnancy onward - unless a lawsuit or court action intervenes.

The JROTC Academic Team of Riverside Military Academy recently earned a 1st Place spot during the second level of the JROTC Academic Bowl Challenge sponsored by The College Options Foundation (COF).