B.J. Williams

The Georgia Board of Regents has voted unanimously to hire University of Georgia Provost Jere Morehead to succeed Michael Adams as university president.

Investigators say they have arrested a 30-year-old Gainesville man in connection with a recent string of purse snatchings in the city.

The Georgia Department of Transportation Monday approved a contract for the construction of a new $8.7 million bridge across Lake Lanier at the Olympic Rowing venue in Gainesville.

With the approach of Severe Weather Awareness Week next week, Hall County has launched a new mass emergency alert system.

Troy Lindsey has been named Dean of Lanier Technical College's (LTC's) Dawson Campus.

Two people suffered minor injuries Saturday as a result of an early morning fire in Cleveland.

In a first-of-its-kind event, Goodwill of North Georgia will hold a simultaneous job fair at each of its eight career centers on Wednesday, February 6.

Tax reform legislation enacted by the Georgia General Assembly in 2012 created a new system for taxing motor vehicles registered in Georgia -and it goes into effect March 1.

Perhaps he didn't want to come out in the cold because the operators of Yellow River Game Ranch had to roust Georgia's official groundhog out of his warm burrow on Saturday morning.

A Morehouse College student has been hospitalized after being shot over a pick-up basketball game.