Ken Stanford

The North Georgia Community Foundation recently awarded $16,500 in Community Impact Grants to nine nonprofit organizations in northeast Georgia to help fund programs designed to improve the quality of life in the region.

New estimates by the World Health Organization and a U.S. health agency are warning that the number of Ebola cases could soar dramatically - the U.S. says up to 1.4 million by mid-January in two nations alone - unless efforts to curb the outbreak are significantly ramped up.

A winning All or Nothing Georgia Lottery ticket with a quarter-million dollar prize was sold in Suwanee.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) started fall semester with a record enrollment of 16,508 registered students, a 2.5 percent increase over fall 2013.

Coming winds and warmer temperatures brought worries that progress made in slowing the growth of a massive wildfire in Northern California could be undone.

The U.S. Attorney

A judge in Louisiana has ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, in part because he says it violates equal protection rights.