B.J. Williams

A freshman senator from Georgia has been chosen to lead Senate Agriculture and Foreign Relations subcommittees.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in December was 5.9 percent, unchanged from November.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center has hired Louis G. Smith, Jr. as the new president for its Gainesville campus, according to a statement released Wednesday morning.

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle recently appointed White County Commissioner Edwin Nix to the Coosa North Georgia Water Council.

The City of Demorest still does not have all the answers about how more than $600,000 in city funds disappeared over the last six years, but they have assured citizens they will continue to put the pieces of the case together.

Georgia on Tuesday executed a man who killed a fellow inmate despite arguments from his lawyers that his execution was prohibited by the Constitution because he was intellectually disabled.

Google is bringing its ultra-fast fiber optic Internet service to four metro areas in the Southeast.

West Hall Middle School 7th grader Emily Wood won the 2015 Hall County School District Spelling Bee Tuesday morning.

Northern Southern plans to move about 500 jobs from Roanoke to Atlanta or Norfolk later this year.

Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Libya's capital Tuesday, killing at least five foreigners and three guards, authorities said.