B.J. Williams

Both Hall County and city of Gainesville governments have announced special hours for the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays.

Nominations are now open for the 2014 Young Man and Young Woman of the Year Award.

Piedmont College held Commencement ceremonies for fall graduates at 10 a.m., Dec. 13, in the Johnny Mize Athletic Center in Demorest.

A Pakistani official says the death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 126.

More than 100,000 people in Georgia passed a test over the past five years certifying they have received the equivalent of a high school education.

Republican Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville will serve on the House Committee on Rules and the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 114th Congress.

Sydney police say three people have died, including the gunman, during a hostage crisis that ended when officers stormed a downtown cafe.

Two people were injured when a Jeep struck a Gainesville City school bus Monday morning just before 8 a.m.

Seventy-five years after the premiere of the movie "Gone with the Wind," research is shedding light on the racial tensions that existed at the time between the producer and city of Atlanta officials.

Authorities are searching for the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a church in Roswell, just north of Atlanta.