Ken Stanford

The City of Gainesville Public Works Department has hired the city

Fire caused about $100,000 damage to Timco Pallet Company on Athens Highway early Wednesday morning, according to Hall County fire officials.

State Representative-elect Charles Jenkins will be sworn in Friday.

A building products company has leased a 6,000-square-foot building in Gainesville and a Gainesville-based company has announced two new area managers.

With a few keystrokes on the computer, Tim Callahan was able to retrieve the cold facts Monday about his local school system, Hall County, and the gap he'd been told existed between the graduation rates of white students and Hispanics.

Expect long delays starting Wednesday morning and continuing the rest of the work week on Dawsonville Highway at the bridge at the Hall-Forsyth county line.

Dawson County voters will be asked March 2 to approve a $24.5 million extension of the county's Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

Voices heralded the arrival of the Christmas season in several languages Sunday night at a Gainesville church.

A transportation study is underway for Banks, Franklin and Jackson counties - and public information meetings are scheduled next week in all three counties.

A Habersham County man whose body was found on his property Sunday apparently died of an accidental gunshot wound.