Ken Stanford

Drought conditions have returned to more than half of Georgia and are closing in on Hall County and others in the immediate Gainesville area.

Republicans are launching a "March to Victory" get-out-the-vote campaign in Hall County today. It will continue through Sunday.

Virginia Feher, reference service librarian for University of North Georgia's Gainesville Campus, has recently been selected by the Georgia Library Association Awards Committee as the winner of the 2014 McJenkin-Rheay Award.

State lawyers handling a lawsuit against the state ethics commission were dealing with a "difficult client" who acted inappropriately in withholding key documents, Attorney General Sam Olens said Thursday in response to his office being fined $10,000 by a judge in the case.

"I will miss this lady." That's the simple post I placed a Facebook Wednesday upon learning of the death of longtime work colleague Lois Martin. Little did I realize the reaction I would get from across the country.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana violate the U.S. Constitution, in another in a series of courtroom wins for gay-marriage advocates.

The Justice Department launched a broad investigation Thursday into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department, following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron pressed fellow NATO leaders Thursday to confront the "brutal and poisonous" Islamic State militant group that is wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria - and urged regional partners like Jordan and Turkey to join the effort as well.