Ken Stanford

It's spring - and just as sure as the azaleas and dogwoods are blooming, the people at Gainesville City Hall are beginning to think about next year's city budget.

The public gets its first chance to tour the grounds of the new Smithgall Arboretum in Gainesville next Saturday.

Gwinnett police have issued a composite sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with a number of recent home invasions.

A veteran employee of the Hall County Tax Commissioner's Office plans to run for tax commissioner in the Republican Primary this year.

Dozens of Forsyth County homeowners met Thursday night to find out why two hydrants were dry when firefighters tried to save their homes from a Sunday brush fire which destroyed five houses in one subdivision.

Services are scheduled Saturday for a well-known White County educator and potter who died Thursday following a sudden illness.

While much of the White House has been focused in recent days on increasing hostilities in Iraq and the work of the Nine-Eleven Commission, for an intern from Gainesville her job has dealt with something a bit more light-hearted.

Here is a summary of northeast Georgia business briefs for the week of April 4.

A shortage of books in the Gainesville and Hall County school libraries is behind plans by the Gainesville-Hall County Junior League for a book drive for the schools.

Corporal Mike Burgamy, a state Department of Natural Resources ranger who patrols Lake Lanier, was recently selected as the department's Georgia Boating Officer of the Year.