Ken Stanford

The Gainesville planning staff is again recommending denial of a rezoning request for a piece of property in the Thompson Bridge Road/Virginia Circle area.

The stock market is closing higher, ending a five-day losing streak, as investors cheered a slight upturn in the price of oil and hoped for more stimulus for Europe's struggling economy.

Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation (Sawnee EMC) is deploying a new payment option for its members called

The White House on Wednesday said President Barack Obama will veto legislation that would increase his health care law's definition of a full-time worker from 30 to 40 hours per week.

Sen. Charles Schumer called Wednesday for daily federal screening of airport and airline workers for weapons following last month's arrests of five men accused of smuggling guns through the New York and Atlanta airports.

Georgia collected roughly $1.91 billion in net taxes in December, up from about $1.75 billion during the same time period in the last fiscal year.

Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle on Wednesday spotted the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board, an important finding because the jet's all-important black boxes are located in that part of the aircraft.

U.S. businesses ramped up hiring last month in the latest sign that the nation's economy is expanding despite worries about global growth that have sent financial markets tumbling. Meantime, the U.S. trade deficit fell in November to the lowest level in 11 months as crude oil imports dropped to a two-decade low.

The medical office building attached to the future Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Braselton is set to open next week.