B.J. Williams

A couple of development items tabled at the July 14 Hall County Commission meeting are back up for discussion this week - one is the rezoning request for the 508-acre Atlanta River Walk project in Braselton and the other is rezoning for a tract of land on Browns Bridge Road for the expansion of Mincey Marble.

A Flowery Branch man has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted in the molestation of a young girl.

A North Georgia high school student who apparently wanted to pay to have two people killed is behind bars in Pickens County.

The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) announced Thursday morning that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in July dropped to 5 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from 5.1 percent in June. T

A babysitter has been charged with felony child cruelty after a baby suffered broken bones while under the woman's care.

The Gainesville City School System has announced sessions for parents of Gainesville students and community members where they will be able to have casual conversations with Superintendent Dr. Wanda Creel.

Authorities have arrested two suspects who they say forced their way in a home in an affluent North Fulton suburb and attacked two women.

Dr. Julia Behr, former Assistant Dean for the Augusta University College of Nursing at Athens, has been named Dean of the R.H. Daniel School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Piedmont College.

Three Georgians, including two from North Georgia, have been named to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's new Agricultural Advisory Committee.

Public health officials from South Carolina are telling people to eat limited amounts of bass from Lake Hartwell on the South Carolina-Georgia line because of mercury found in the tissue of those species.