B.J. Williams

A group of state lawmakers is exploring the idea of using income tax breaks to help repopulate rural Georgia and the ghost towns that now dot the landscape after years of population decline.

The low water levels last year forced the cancellation of the annual Polar Bear Plunge on Lake Lanier, but that won't be the case on this New Year's Day.

In 2017, as in years past, readers gravitated most often to news coverage of traffic fatalities and local crime.

Flowery Branch Police Department investigators are on the lookout for two women they consider suspects in recent thefts from two area antique stores.

A Jefferson man has been identified as the victim of a single-vehicle crash in South Hall County Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities in Forsyth County are working to identify a man who was killed in a Christmas Day fire.

Hall County officials are reminding residents that it makes good sense to recycle after the holidays.

Gainesville police are looking for information in the shooting of two men at Melrose Apartments on Thursday afternoon.

The Georgia State Patrol has identified the victim in a pedestrian accident that occurred Thursday in the East Hall County area.

Governor Nathan Deal has made his choice for a fifth Superior Court judge for the Northeastern Judicial Circuit.