B.J. Williams

For the first time in its history, Hall County will hire a financial advisor.

According to a statement released Monday by Buford High School Athletics Director Dexter Wood, the school will forfeit wins over Banks County High School and West Hall High School because an academically ineligible player was allowed to take part in the two games.

The Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education began its annual bus trip across the state Monday, and the first stop on the 2012 tour was Hall County's World Language Academy.

Fulton County has hired an election consultant with a no-nonsense reputation after its old election chief was imprisoned and resigned.

The second week of advance voting for the general election begins Monday and elections officials across North Georgia are hoping for the continued large turnout of voters.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is trying something new with one of its campgrounds on Lake Lanier. Sawnee Campground in Cumming will remain open through the fall and winter.

The release of the so-called Boy Scouts of America "perversion files" has revived memories of a 1988 Hall County case involving a Boy Scout leader.

A Buford-area family is recalling the overnight commotion that turned out to be a SWAT situation at a house across the road from their subdivision early Friday morning.

The Gainesville Heat semi-pro basketball team honors breast cancer survivors this Sunday, October 21.

Hall County authorities have charged three teenage boys in connection with two entering auto cases and a burglary on Goddard's Ford Road last month.