Ken Stanford

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has launched a mobile app to help outdoors enthusiasts.

Georgia officials are warning people shopping for a new car to beware of flood-damaged vehicles in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again after more than a month of encouraging reports of slowly improving conditions, a drought-tracking consortium reports, as scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of rain.

A former warden at the North Georgia Detention Center in Gainesville, Stacey Stone, has been named warden at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin.

In the days since Republicans lost an election many in the party thought was theirs, chatter has been bubbling about what the GOP should do to recover. For Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, it starts with the smallest of actions: abandoning the state's now-infamous straw poll.

This year's Black Friday shoppers were split into two distinct groups: those who wanted to fall into a turkey-induced slumber and those who'd rather shop instead.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded nine along Gaza's border fence with Israel on Friday, a Gaza health official said, reporting the first violence since a truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold a day before.

President Barack Obama is urging Americans to put aside partisan differences and come together as a nation for Thanksgiving.