B.J. Williams

What started out as a fun Fourth of July camping trip with his family almost ended in disaster, except for the life-saving procedures Cory Billings performed on an 18-month-old girl that nearly drowned.

The City of Gainesville observes its first mandated furlough day Wednesday, and three other local governments in the area will be taking extra days off around Thanksgiving this year, as well.

The Wee Elephant Day Care Center of the Gainesville City School System filled a gallon container with canned goods to donate to Good News at Noon for the Thanksgiving holiday.

After a meeting Thursday night at Gainesville's Fair Street Elementary School, the decision was made to tear down the facility.

SoloHealth, maker of EyeSite™ self-service vision testing and self-directed healthcare kiosks, has teamed with metro Atlanta Kroger stores to promote eye health awareness and to encourage regular eye exams.

An Athens-based mobile food pantry has begun making the rounds in northeast Georgia and made its second stop recently in Jackson County.

More than a hundred members of a Gainesville-based Army Reserve unit leave Wednesday for eventual deployment to Afghanistan. And, plans are in the works for a send-off motorcade and ceremony for them on Tuesday.

Extra-close elections in two Franklin County towns are now being challenged in court by the men who lost those elections.

An 18-year-old Tiger woman was killed in a Tuesday night accident in Rabun County.

Two Flowery Branch men have been arrested and charged with the burglary of a vacant home in the Mundy Mill Development.