Ken Stanford

The funeral will be held Friday in Gainesville for a Murrayville man with close, longtime ties to the University of North Georgia (UNG).

The Arts Council, Inc. will hold its first Red Carpet Gala Casino Night fundraiser on Saturday, February 23, at The Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center at 6:30.

The Senate opened its first hearing on a comprehensive immigration overhaul Wednesday with a call from a committee chairman for swift action on a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants.

Republicans charged Wednesday that President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union address studded with tired liberal notions and campaign-style hostility and said the speech did little to ease partisan tensions over issues like gigantic budget deficits.

Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into a law his plan to extend a key piece of Medicaid insurance funding without explicitly extending a tax on hospitals.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) will be holding free events to help parents and students fill out the forms required to apply for federal financial aid on Feb. 24 on the Dahlonega campus and March 1 on the Gainesville campus.

For the third time, Suwanee residents have been asked to rate community characteristics and government services through the National Citizens Survey. For the third time, residents have rated Suwanee highly, generally above and often much above ratings received from residents in some 500 other jurisdictions across the country.

Americans barely spent more last month at retail businesses and restaurants after higher taxes cut their paychecks.

Sen. Patrick Leahy wants the government to start affording same sex, married couples the same immigration benefits that heterosexual couples now enjoy.