Ken Stanford

Plans are in the works for another apartment complex in Gainesville, the second to come to light in less than a month. In addition, a new assisted living facility is also on the drawing board.

New studies show almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite.

A platform collapsed during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at a circus performance Sunday, sending eight acrobats plummeting to the ground. Nine performers were seriously injured in the fall, including a dancer below, while an unknown number of others suffered less serious injuries.

Faculty members at Georgia's largest university say they want discrimination against employees for gender identity banned more explicitly, on par with race, sex and religion.

Advocates for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally are mounting a final push to persuade the House to pass immigration legislation this summer, seeing one last window to act that will soon slam shut for good.

The Gainesville-based Georgia Retired Educators Association signed the papers this week to borrow about $ 900,000 in order to begin construction on a new State Office/Museum Building in Flowery Branch.

The United States is prepared to give Congo $30 million in aid for stability and democracy-building

The United Nations secretary-general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Saturday he supports allowing same-sex couples to wed but will continue defending his state's 2004 ban on gay marriages in court.

Brenau University awarded the first doctoral degrees in the university