Ken Stanford

Gainesville, the impact its Hispanic population is having on the city and the impact Georgia's immigration crackdown is having on the Latino population got a big write-up in the Los Angeles Times recently.

Seeking a jolt for the economy, President Barack Obama will lay out new ideas for speeding up job growth and helping the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech in early September, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

This summer's drought now covers all of Georgia after pushing its way to the Tennessee and North Carolina lines but a nearly month-long string of high temperatures in the 90s in Gainesville has ended.

Companies paid higher prices for tobacco, pickup trucks and pharmaceuticals in July, driving underlying wholesale inflation up by the most in six months.

Hall County Central Communications/E9-1-1 conducted an audible test of the severe weather warning system this morning at 10:00.

Educators say Alabama's tough new crackdown on illegal immigrants isn't keeping Hispanic parents from sending their children to school, despite opponents' fears over a novel provision requiring educators to determine the immigration status of students.

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) announces open house meetings to solicit input on the Draft FY 2012 - 2015 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP).

Four people were injured in a wreck involving several vehicles on Mundy Mill Road in Oakwood about 9:30 Tuesday night.

Key committees in the Georgia Senate and House on Tuesday cleared political maps redrawing district lines for the 236 members of the state Legislature.

About a dozen people rallied outside the Georgia Democratic Party headquarters to protest a program - in place in Hall and 42 other Georgia counties - that gives immigration authorities access to the fingerprints of arrestees.