Ken Stanford

A road construction project - expected to last well into summer - was set to begin Wednesday at a busy east Gainesville intersection.

Getting around Gainesville and Hall County has just gotten easier for area students.

An ABC-TV crew visited several places around Gainesville Tuesday taping a segment revolving around WDUN'S Martha Zoller Show.

Hall County's School Nurse of the Year is a lady who has been with the county school system since the school nurse program was implemented five years ago.

The Hall County Sheriff's Office and Gainesville Police Department are among 15 local government agencies in northeast Georgia earmarked for Homeland Security grants.

Nineteen sites in Georgia - including nine in our area - are listed in National Geographic's Geotourism Mapguide to Appalachia.

The Sam Jones Cath Observation Unit at Northeast Georgia Medical Center was dedicated Sunday afternoon.

An investigation into an escape attempt last summer from Georgia's death row - involving a Hall County killer and two others - has yielded no arrests or disciplinary action.

It was a frustrating commute for a couple of hours Monday morning for people using a busy South Hall intersection.

Habersham County is the recipient of a $50,000 grant from the Office of Domestic Preparedness.