Ken Stanford

An interfaith service and public forum in Gainesville next month will focus on the roles of science and religion in protecting the future of the planet.

Publix is recalling apple, pineapple and pumpkin empanadas sold at stores in Hall, Gwinnett and five other Georgia counties.

Authorities have now released the name of the man killed in a motorcycle accident Thursday night. Richard Corbin, 53, of Buford was killed when the motorcycle he was driving hit a parked car in the north bound lane of South Waterworks Road near Buford.

One south bound lane of Highway 365 was shut down for more than an hour Friday morning as the result of a hit and run wreck that happened just north of White Sulphur Road.

The number of initial unemployment insurance claims filed in Georgia and in Gainesville is down from a month ago.

Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) plans to relocate all of Northeast Georgia Medical Center's acute care and emergency care services currently at the Lanier Park Campus to the main campus when the hospital's new North Patient Tower (NPT) opens next spring and, by 2010 or 2011, move the New Horizons West nursing home beds to Lanier Park.

The Senate rejected calls from both parties' presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush.

Starting today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will reduce the amount of water released from Lake Lanier.

Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday reiterated his opposition to permitting alcohol sales on Sunday and said he isn't persuaded by those who say let the people vote on the issue.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center remains confident it will prevail with plans to build a new hospital in South Hall in spite of another hospital's appeal.