Ken Stanford

If you still haven't gotten your dog or cat vaccinated against rabies, you'll get another chance - at a cut-rate price - in another three weeks.

State employees and teachers would receive a 2.5 percent cost-of-living pay raise under the $21.2 billion budget that passed unanimously in the Senate on Friday.

The funeral for Marsha Fletcher, the former longtime head of Keep Hall Beautiful, will be held Monday.

Casting traffic congestion as a family values issue, the House voted on Thursday to give local governments the option of levying a 1-cent sales tax hike to fund regional transportation projects.

Gainesville First United Methodist Church

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy was at Brenau University's Gainesville campus Thursday night to meet with students, screen one of her films and give a lecture.

A time line has been established for getting a 5-year-old Iraqi boy, befriended by a Gainesville Marine, to South Carolina for heart surgery.

Eight of the country's 10 fastest-growing cities are in the south - and metro Gainesville is one of them.

Leaders in four northeast Georgia counties want the state to lift drought restrictions because of recent rainfall.

The jobless rates are up slightly in Gainesville and the 13-county Georgia Mountains Region.