B.J. Williams

The Georgia Department plans to begin work Monday, July 6 on Friendship Road (SR 347) at the intersection of Grand Reunion Drive.

Georgia motorists are now paying an average price of $1.99 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, according to the weekly fuel price report from AAA-The Auto Club South.

A fall tradition in Clarkesville for the past 45 years has been placed on the back burner this year because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Recent Gainesville High School graduate Camryn Banks is the latest recipient of the GHS Alumni Scholarship.

As Piedmont College prepares to become Piedmont University, the institution is working on a new building for its Athens campus.

Phone scams are nothing new, but the Hall County Sheriff's Office said residents recently have lost money to a couple of crooks who are using new tactics.

Even though fire officials issue safety reminders for the Fourth of July every year, they know people tend to forget when they're distracted by the festivities of the summer holiday, so they repeat them, hoping folks will heed the warnings.

After serving four years as the Senior Pastor of Gainesville First United Methodist Church, Rev. Scott Hearn has a new assignment.

Georgia's state election board voted Wednesday to extend a rule allowing counties to utilize absentee ballot drop boxes through elections in November.

Local law enforcement agencies will have a chance to respond to concerns they heard at a June 18 event in midtown Gainesville.