Ken Stanford

A fire department official says it's hard to believe no one was injured in a wreck north of Cleveland early Thursday.

A $1 million donation will be used by Northeast Georgia Medical Center for an "innovative" robotic surgery system.

The state Senate voted to require that local governments set up ethics panels to hear complaints filed by citizens against elected officials.

Two northeast Georgians have struck it rich in recent weeks - each winning $1 million from the Georgia Lottery.

Despite a soaring foreign oil bill and another record deficit with China, the overall U.S. trade deficit declined in 2007 after setting records for five consecutive years.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday that the country's economic outlook has deteriorated and signaled that the central bank is ready to keep on lowering a key interest rate - as needed - to shore things up.

Initial unemployment insurance claims in Metro Gainesville were up 120 percent in January... tops among the state's fourteen metropolitan areas

A coalition of environmentalists and Georgia lawmakers on Wednesday said the state's recently adopted water plan doesn't go far enough to promote conservation.

Gov. Sonny Perdue announced relaxed water use restrictions for Hall and 60 other north Georgia counties two weeks ago. Gainesville city officials said Wednesday it is OK to go ahead and begin using water outdoors as long as the state-approved guidelines are are followed.

For the first time in five years, state lawmakers are looking at raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1.