Ken Stanford

Utility crews have been slower to fix Northeast power outages caused by last weekend's record-setting snowstorm than they were after Hurricane Irene and its remnants because they had less time to prepare, a U.S. Department of Energy official said Tuesday.

A suspected member of a fringe north Georgia militia group intended to use the plot of an online novel as a model for plans to attack U.S. federal law officers and others, authorities said.

A typical Georgia Power customer will pay an extra 57 cents next year to finance the construction of a nuclear power plant, less than the utility earlier estimated.

Bank of America Corp. is scrapping its plan to charge a $5 monthly fee for debit card purchases after outraged customers threatened an exodus.

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Habersham County Sheriff

For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.

The Georgia Urban Forest Council has awarded its Outstanding New Initiative Award to the Save the Hemlocks Project at SNCA (Sautee-Nacoochee Community Association).

A memorial service will be held Saturday for a retired Gainesville textile executive who died Monday.

Georgia fourth- and eighth-graders are performing only slightly better than they did two years ago on national reading and math exams, and most of the students tested continue to lag the national average in both subjects.

The contract has been awarded for the construction of Don Carter State Park, which is planned in North Hall.