Ken Stanford

New claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week while the number of people continuing to seek aid rose sharply, the government said Thursday.

The level of Lake Lanier continues its dramatic increase... up almost two feet in just two days.

Lebanese militants fired barrages of rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, striking a nursing home and threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Discount clothing chain Goody's Family Clothing will begin liquidating its remaining stores - including six in northeast Georgia.

North Georgia is not the only place where heavy rains are producing flooding.

The Arts Council’s Evenings of Intimate Jazz returns on Saturday, January 17 with the Christian Tamburr Quartet.

A group is recommending the state's two-year colleges be moved from the University System of Georgia to the technical college system.

First it was the rain... now it's gusty winds which began toppling trees in the Gainesvile area not long after daybreak.

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.

A retired, longtime Gainesville physician has died.