Ken Stanford

Gainesville city officials say don't be alarmed if, over the next few months, you spot strangers around your business or home, checking your water meter.

Water service will be interrupted in the Newtown area of Gaiensville most of the day Wednesday.

The former longtime athletic director at Habersham Central High School has died.

The Gainesville School Board holds the first of two budget pubic hearings Monday aftrernoon.

The Newtown Florist Club is already making plans for the construction of another home in the Newtown part of Gainesville which it will market to low-income families.

Two northeast Georgia counties are now included in the Atlanta Regional Commission's (ARC) "smart growth" program.

Nearly 600 students graduated from Brenau University in Gainesville this weekend.

Graveside services will be held Monday for the first woman member of the hospital authority for what is now Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

The Hall County YMCA is increasing its presence in the county school system and has named an architect to design plans for its new facility.

The Lake Lanier Association's fight to keep Gwinnett County from discharging up to 40 million gallons of wastewater into Lake Lanier will be heard by the state Supreme Court.