B.J. Williams

The Gainesville City School System will operate on a full calendar next year for the first time since the state began making austerity cuts to the budget and reducing contributions to local school systems.

Gwinnett County police now say a man was likely trying to commit suicide when he fell over a third-floor railing at the Mall of Georgia in Buford.

The Hall County School District plans to add an instructional day to replace one that was recently lost during the weather-related school closures.

In a press statement, Dr. Paul Godfrey announced Monday he will run for the at-large post on the Hall County Board of Education.

Hall County District Attorney Lee Darragh plans to make an official announcement about his re-election campaign at an event in Gainesville later this week.

Lawmakers in the Georgia Senate have joined their colleagues in the House in supporting legislation to change a key policy guiding development on Jekyll Island.

The Georgia Senate has endorsed legislation that would establish a state registry of people with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders.

A woman killed in a Friday evening wreck south of Gainesville has been identified as Yaqueline Ibarra Espino, age 21.

U.S. manufacturing barely expanded last month as cold weather delayed shipments of raw materials and caused some factories to shut down.

A new series of car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday killed at least 23 people, officials said, as Iraq's Shiite-led government grapples with a stubborn Sunni extremist-led insurgency in the western Anbar province.