Ken Stanford

Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled California on Friday, toppling trees, flipping big rigs, cutting power to more than a million people and threatening mudslides in fire-scarred areas.

It looks like downtown Gainesville will get to hold onto the Georgia Mountains Center parking deck a little while longer.

Temperatures dipping into the teens over much of north Georgia on Thursday were mostly a good thing for crops, Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said, and one Lula peach farmer says his trees were not affected.

According to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) newly released annual ranking of Georgia

The Gwinnett County Commission chairman wants the sheriff's department to begin enforcing federal immigration laws but the sheriff says he can't afford to do it.

Contracts totaling more than six million dollars have been awarded for the construction of median cable barriers along I-985 in Hall and Gwinnett counties and Georgia 400 in Forsyth.

Rush hour was marred by ice-related wrecks around Gainesville and elsewhere in north Georgia Wednesday by black ice and a slight accumulation of snow that caught many off-guard.

For the second time in as many months, thieves have removed an ATM from a Buford bank.

The northeast Georgia Great Decisions foreign policy discussion group will begin its 37th year at Piedmont College this month.