Ken Stanford

A dwindling rainfall is helping accelerate the spread of the drought into north Georgia.

Katherine Register, a cadet at North Georgia College & State University, has been recognized as the No. 2 cadet in the 486-member 7th Regiment at the U.S. Army

Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is blasting a Republican bill that would open up more than 50 million acres of public lands - such as north Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest - to logging and other development.

With the NFL lockout settled and plans moving ahead for training camps and a new season, lots of people in Flowery Branch are breathing a "sigh of relief."

A new Census report says decades of minority gains in net worth have been wiped out by the recession and the uneven recovery.

Rival Democratic and Republican plans to raise the government's borrowing ability have thrust Congress into a standoff just one week away from a potentially devastating debt crisis.

The Hall County Board of Education Monday night approved an extension of Supt. Will Schofield's contract through June 2014, the maximum allowed by law.

Opponents to New York's gay marriage law filed the first lawsuit challenging the measure, an anticipated salvo that came one day after weddings were celebrated around the state.

Democratic and Republican congressional leaders shopped competing debt-crisis solutions and President Barack Obama canceled fundraising appearances Monday, as a politically gridlocked capital lurched into a climactic last full week before the Aug. 2 default deadline.

Georgia gasoline prices rose another 6-cents-a-gallon last week and have now gone up 26 cents in the past three weeks and is now $3.73, according to AAA Auto Club South.