Ken Stanford

Several banks in the immediate Gainesville area are on a list of the 369 safest in the county, according to a new report.

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Friday awarded 17 contracts for more than $55 million in new transportation infrastructure improvements across the state, including two for $9 million for work in Forsyth County.

President Barack Obama got new jobs figures Friday to buttress his argument that he's presiding over steady, if slow, economic growth. But the government's report that the overall rate of unemployment actually crept up by one-tenth of a point allows Republican Mitt Romney to keep pressure on Obama to defend his record.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she hopes drones will soon be able to see through jungle cover so they can locate warlord Joseph Kony.

People in Athens, Canton, Dalton, Dawsonville and Milledgeville now have the choice, through AT&T, of what the company says is "a new low-cost alternative to traditional home phone service."

U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring but the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent, from 8.2 percent in June.

A Republican congressman who's retiring in frustration over political gridlock says he hopes the institution doesn't have to hit "rock bottom" before people learn to work together.

As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation.

Gainesville State College (GSC) will be closed to the public for a portion of the day on Monday to allow faculty and staff members to participate in Fall Planning activities.

Testimony in the trial of a Gainesville man acaused of murdering his girlfriend's toddler daughter is expected to comtinue Friday.