Ken Stanford

The loss is put at around a quarter million dollars following an East Hall chicken house fire early Tuesday.

Portraits in Gray: A Collection of Civil War Photography will open for visitors on Friday at the Northeast Georgia History Center in the rotating gallery.

Less than a month after taking home a country music award as top new vocal group, northeast Georgia's Zac Brown Band is up for another award.

Investigators said Monday they believe a 14-acre grass fire in White County Sunday was caused by a catalytic converter on a car or truck and a 45-acre blaze Friday was started by lightning.

General Motors says it will cut 21,000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out its storied Pontiac brand as part of a major restructuring effort needed to get more government aid.

There were more Earth Day events over the weekend in Gainesville.

Gas prices in Georgia held almost steady again last week... but did decline amost a penny a gallon.

The Blairsville Birdbrains, the Flowery Branch Terrific Titmouse, and the Suwanee Homeschool Hummers. No, they are not the names of the country's new minor league baseball teams but among the teams from northeast Georgia that competed this weekend in the state of Georgia's 2009 Youth Birding Competition.

Regulators on Friday shut down American Southern Bank in Georgia, boosting the number of failures this year to 26 - more bank closures than in all of last year.

Southern Baptist churches baptized fewer people in 2008 for the fourth year in a row to reach the lowest level since 1987, and membership in the country's largest Protestant denomination fell slightly as well.