Ken Stanford

There have now been 16 confirmed cases of rabies in Hall County this year.

State Rep. James Mills, dean of the Hall County state legislative delegation, says filling the vacancy left on the state Department of Transportation board by Thursday's resignation of Mike Evans should be an urgent matter.

Forget government corruption or corporate fraud. Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football's Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise.

It was a well-placed bullet that knocked out Charter Communications entire cable TV, Internet and phone system in Hall County overnight Wednesday.

Metro Gainesville added 300 jobs over the past month, according to the state Labor Department, an increase of almost half a percent.

Watch for delays on 985 southbound just north of Oakwood today.

In a divided death penalty ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday approved the most widely used method of lethal injection in the U.S.

The rainfall deficits in Gainesville and elsewhere in North Georgia remain at 12 inches or more for the past 12 months, but winter rains have eliminated the "exceptional" drought conditions.

A record number of properties around the Atlanta area are scheduled for courthouse auctions next month, according to Equity Depot, an Alpharetta company that keeps track of foreclosures.

President Bush is proposing new targets for curtailing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to short-circuit what aides call a potential regulatory "train wreck" if Congress doesn't act on climate change.