Seven Hall County homeowners are in the final stages of approval to receive grant funding from the state of Georgia for repairs and upgrades to their residences, bringing their homes into compliance with county building codes.
Last year, over half of all highway fatalities on Halloween night involved an impaired driver according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
A 56-year-old Hall County man was shot and killed outside a Braselton convenience store Saturday morning, and police are looking for suspects in the incident.
Six months into a deepening drought, the weather is killing crops, threatening cattle and sinking lakes to their lowest levels in years across much of the South.
The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in September was 5.3 percent, while the rate for the Gainesville metro was 4.4 percent.