The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) office in Gainesville, which serves 21 counties, is home to a new environmental position: Environmental Compliance Engineer.
Passenger train service in Gainesville continues to suffer because of hurricane-related repairs on the Gulf Coast, according to the Georgia Association of Railroad Passengers.
Funeral services will be held Saturday for Charles Propes, a former member of the Hall County School Board, who died Thursday of injuries received in a wreck two weeks ago.
The new mayor of Flowery Branch says she - like county commission chairman Tom Oliver - is skeptical about a move to create a new town in that part of the county.
The Gainesville man running for Lt. Governor against embattled former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed scored higher than Reed in a new poll of likely voters.
A Habersham County man - arrested nearly three years ago in what's described as the largest Ectasy drug ring ever uncovered in the Southeast - has been given a three-year prison sentence.
