Ken Stanford

The Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce's (GHCC's) annual Buy Local Expo is Friday, February 22 from 9:00-2:00 at the Gainesville Civic Center (new venue this year).

Tony Free is the new Campus Police Chief at North Georgia Technical College (NGTC).

Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) is offering a six-week caregiver support group.

A spokesman for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says Georgians who use Amazon.com will have to pay taxes on their purchases, though it's not clear when.

Gainesville businessman Stacy Reece testified before a congressional panel in Washington Thursday, sharing the "involuntary consequences" of extended unemployment benefits.

The Chestatee-Chattahoochee RC&D Council has been reauthorized as an enhanced (Tier II) member of the National Association

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A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.

Passengers who finally escaped the disabled Carnival cruise ship Triumph were checking into hotels early Friday for a hot shower, fresh-cooked food and sleep or boarding buses for a long haul home after five numbing days at sea on a powerless ship.

House conservatives want to extend to a full three years the current freeze on cost-of-living pay increases for the nation's 2 million civilian federal workers.