B.J. Williams

Friends and classmates of a Gainesville teen who drowned Friday in Lake Lanier are helping the boy's family raise money for a funeral.

The City of Sugar Hill has tentatively adopted a 2020 millage rate of 3.8 mils, which is the same millage rate the city has adopted for 16 consecutive years.

Six Hall County students were honored recently at the first-ever virtual International Leadership Conference for HOSA (Future Health Professionals).

The University of North Georgia is now less than a month away from the completion of the new stand-alone Blue Ridge Campus.

The physician who oversees the coronavirus incidence response at Northeast Georgia Health System said the community has grown "a little bit complacent," and he thinks that's a big contributor to surging cases in the region.

Police detectives in Gwinnett County now have a name for a homicide victim found shot and burned in Duluth on Monday, but at this point there are no reported suspects in the case.

A Forsyth County man accused of plotting to attack the White House with an antitank rocket and explosives was sentenced Thursday in federal court to serve 15 years in prison, according to online court records.

A Lula woman is the second suspect arrested in a continuing child molestation investigation that started back in the spring.

Georgia state leaders will not ask local schools to delay face-to-face instruction until after Labor Day.

Georgia has locally-controlled school districts, but it appears the State Board of Education may push public schools to hold off on the start of the new year until the day after Labor Day.