B.J. Williams

While the supervisor of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests says she didn't personally know any of the firefighters who were killed in the wildfire in Prescott, Arizona, she is familiar with their work.

The Habersham County Board of Commissioners Tuesday set three public hearing dates ahead of a likely property tax increase for the upcoming fiscal year.

Authorities are searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run death of a college student as she walked to her job at a Huddle House restaurant in Barnesville.

The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia.

Sandy Springs police have released a photo of the vehicle they believe to be involved in a hit-and-run crash that critically injured a Buford man Sunday morning.

The director of the Blue Ridge Outdoor Education Center in Toccoa said he is working on an apology letter to a group of parents whose children became part of a re-enactment of the Underground Railroad.

Interest rates on some new federally backed loans for college students are now double what they were last week.

President Barack Obama says all nations in the world with intelligence services try to understand what other nations are thinking. He says that's why they have intelligence services.

Spending on residential housing rose in May to the highest level in 4 1/2 years, helping to send overall construction spending higher despite a big drop in nonresidential activity.