Ken Stanford

The Gainesville School System's 2015-2016 school calendar has been approved.

Oil prices rose on news of the death of Saudi Arabia's powerful King Abdullah, but the increase is likely to be short-lived without a cut in the kingdom's immense crude production.

The leader of the House Democrats said Thursday that Republican Speaker John Boehner blundered when he invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress amid sensitive negotiations about Iran's nuclear program and in the shadow of Israel's elections.

A messy mix of rain, snow and sleet is bearing down on the Northeast's major cities in what forecasters are calling the Interstate 95 corridor's first brush with a significant winter storm this season.

The Georgia Department of Transportation announces a new traffic signal is scheduled to be operational Thursday, January 29, in Braselton, if weather permits and testing goes well. The new signal is flashing now at the intersection of State Route 347 at the new Northeast Georgia Health System

The U.S. and its allies sought to put a good face on the coalition's deliberate campaign to roll back the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, boasting of having killed thousands of militants while acknowledging that ousting the group from key cities remains a distant aspiration.

Yemen's president resigned Thursday, saying he had reached a "deadlock" in talks with Shiite rebels who rule the capital and had confined him to his home. His resignation raised fears the Arab world's poorest country could again split apart, severely complicating U.S. efforts to combat al-Qaida's powerful local franchise.

As thousands of abortion foes surged through the city on their annual protest march to the Supreme Court, Republicans muscled legislation through the House on Thursday tightening federal restrictions on abortions. The vote came after internal divisions forced them into an embarrassing fumble of a similar bill.

Hall County Tax Commissioner Darla Eden has been elected to the Board of the Tax Commissioners' Technology Development Council of Georgia, better known as TCTECH.