B.J. Williams

Now that Hurricane Laura has made landfall on the southwest Louisiana coast, Jackson EMC is sending some of the cooperative's contractors to the region to assist with power restoration.

The Georgia Department of Labor reported small improvements in July employment numbers for the Gainesville metro area.

Georgia's governor said Wednesday that he's considering creating mobile testing strike teams to deploy to schools and colleges to control COVID-19 outbreaks.

District 2 Public Health has scheduled a free COVID-19 testing event for Saturday, Aug. 29 at St. John Baptist Church in Gainesville.

A rising senior at Winder-Barrow High School was killed Sunday night when a motorist struck the girl's bicycle on Highway 211 in Winder.

Some Georgians are in line for more unemployment assistance as the state has given up the dubious title of being the state where COVID-19 is spreading the fastest.

Saying he wants to be as transparent as possible during the ongoing pandemic, Hall County School District Superintendent Will Schofield said the district will provide an online tracker so that parents and the community can see daily COVID-19 absences in each of the county's schools.

A Gainesville man will remain in prison for a 2017 murder that happened during a drug deal that went wrong on Carlton Street in the Newtown area of the city.

Gasoline prices in the Gainesville area are among the lowest in the state this week, according to the latest fuel price report from AAA-The Auto Club Group.

A 16-year-old Hall County student suffered a minor injury when she made a left turn in front of a school bus on the first day of school.