Ken Stanford

Hall County Fire Services is hosting a two-day conference in Gainesville this week on how to effectively care for young children who are trauma victims.

LifeSouth Community Blood Center has an emergency need for type O blood in Gainesville and elsewhere in North Georgia.

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The state Public Service Commission (PSC) has scheduled a series hearings dealing with the rate hike request filed a month ago by a Gainesville natural gas supplier, Atmos Energy.

Plans for a drug court in Dawson County, patterned after the one here in Hall County, which is starting its fifth year, are still in the works.

Three men are in custody on burglary charges stemming from two unrelated weekend incidents in Hall County.

The Baldwin City Council has voted to place a six-month moratorium on new subdivisions, pending a revision of the city's 26-year-old zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations.

Hall County firefighters plan to run nearly 100 miles through the county Saturday in the first Hall County Firefighters' Run for Kids.

Some fees are being eliminated at 38 recreation sites in the Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forest.

Sparklers and other low-grade fireworks are legal in Georgia for the first time in many years - and with July 4 just around the corner, Hall County Fire Marshal Scott Cagle is expressing new concern for the safety of youngsters playing with them.