As the work continues around the new Exit 14 ramp on I-985 in Hall County, motorists will have a new procedure to follow if they're traveling in the area during the overnight hours this week.
Calling the move "unexpected and significant," three Georgia congressional representatives, including Gainesville's Doug Collins, have asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to better explain the reasoning for cost increases for dock permits.
Drug agents with Hall County's Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad had a hectic Thursday afternoon, rounding up six suspects in two separate drug busts in the North Hall area.
A doctor who ran a clinic in Braselton in North Georgia and another facility in Pooler near Savannah will spend the next 33 months in federal prison for illegally prescribing drugs to people who were not his patients.
Gillsville, the oldest community in Hall County, is also one of the smallest, but former Mayor Larry Poole says that's the way the folks in Gillsville like it.
An Atlanta-area police chief, who earned his bachelor's degree from Brenau University, has been appointed to head the state's insurance commission after the previous commissioner was indicted on federal charges.