Bryan Pirkle

The city of Lula wants some public input on its budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

A licensed master captain on Lake Lanier has started a new service designed to help people avoid boating under the influence and BUI-related tragedy.

The Northwinds Symphonic Band is celebrating Memorial Day with the "Spirit of American Heroes" concert.

The South's oldest balloon event and the country's only long distance hot air balloon race is 40 years old this year.

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United Way of Hall County is increasing the number of agencies it supports to 23 this year, covering 37 total programs in three "core" areas: education, health and income.

Even with Republicans holding unprecedented political power across the South, Democrats remain mostly in charge of urban centers in otherwise conservative states. Yet increasingly that control is threatened, not at the ballot box, but by Republican-led legislatures reaching into local governing decisions, often over objections.

The water dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia is provoking hardball politics in Congress, where Georgia lawmakers derailed a proposal that could restrict metro Atlanta's water supply.

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is seeking input from Forsyth and Cherokee county citizens on plans to improve busy State Route 20 between Cumming and Canton.

From Israel's perspective, its airstrikes near Damascus were more about Iran than Syria: Tehran's shipment of guided missiles destroyed in the weekend attacks would have posed a potent threat had the weapons reached Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.