Ken Stanford

The Gainesville City Council holds its first nighttime regular meeting Tuesday after deciding last month to move one meeting a month to the evening for the rest of the year.

Plans for two condominium skyscrapers to be located on the shores of Lake Lanier in north Gainesville have been passed along to the Georgia Mountains Regional Development Center.

Sandy Moore of Hartwell has been named District Construction Engineer for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) office in Gainesville.

Fourteen Hall County elected offices will be on the line in this year's elections - beginning with the primaries in the summer.

Both houses of the Georgia General Assembly have now passed a power line bill which is being watched closed by a number of northeast Georgians.

If it seemed warmer Friday morning than in recent days, it was - as the temperature stayed above freezing for the first morning in eleven days.

Candidates can begin qualifying Monday for the special elections to be held in Flowery Branch March 2.

Hall County's unemployment rate is now more than one point lower than the statewide rate.

Congressman Nathan Deal of Gainesville has introduced legislation to force members of Congress to "get serious" about balancing the federal budget.

Investigators say yet another Habersham County fire is the work of arsonists, but they stop short of saying it is connected to the others.