Ken Stanford

Atlanta Public Schools administrators sometimes punished employees who reported cheating on standardized tests and rewarded those who kept silent, a newspaper report has found.

A tangible sign of planning for the new year is beginning in many places: kindergarten registration.

A Gainesville woman, responding to an AccessNorthGA.com story about Gainesville's homeless people who live under the city's railroad bridges, this week decided to do something to help.

Georgia's new labor commissioner says he will seek federal funding so he can make sure government agencies and contractors are using the e-verify program to check the legal status of their employees.

A fire occurred overnight in the laundry room at New Horizons Nursing Home in west Gainesville.

Three more Georgia counties have joined a federal immigration fingerprint program.

Gainesville Fire Chief Jon Canada and Gainesville native Phillip Wilheit, Jr., have been named to a couple of state boards by Gov. Nathan Deal.

Just one month into winter, major cities up and down the East Coast have already gotten clobbered with more snow than they usually get all season. And officially, winter still has two months left.

A memorial service will be held Sunday for Gainesville attorney Mickey Neidenbach, who died suddenly Thursday morning.

The FBI is seeking the public's help in locating two men who robbed two armored car couriers at a bank in Stone Mountain Friday, shooting one of the couriers. The pair is also believed responsible for two recent armored car robberies in Buford and others in and around Atlanta.