Ken Stanford

Community Emergency Response (CERT) Teams around the state will boost their training capabilities now that trailers, containing a wide range of equipment used in disaster and emergency response, have been delivered.

New home starts in Hall County were down by a almost 200 units last year, while the City of Gainesville recorded an increase.

High school students from all over the country - including a number from Gainesville and elsewhere in northeast Georgia - will be in Washington for President Bush's inauguration this week, some arriving as early as Monday.

Strong winds flattened a chicken house on the Danny Fauscette poultry farm on Georgia 183 in Dawson County late Thursday afternoon.

The city of Cornelia has moved a step closer to adopting a liquor by the drink ordinance.

Cold weather is set to make a return to Gainesville and most of Georgia this weekend.

Governor Perdue's bond-financed projects list includes several in northeast Georgia.

A freshman state lawmaker from northeast Georgia is helping sponsor a bill that would extend the waiting time for divorce in the state.

Habersham County authorities are asking residents to be on the look out for two men going door-to-door claiming to be from Hall County Crime Prevention.

Gainesville will be well-represented on the powerful House Appropriations Committee this year.