Rob Moore

With a more than 500-unit residential development in the works, the City of Lula is taking a pause on new residential zoning.

Union County Schools will open to students on Tuesday, August 16, at the normal starting time.

More rental housing will be constructed in Baldwin if the city council approves a variance request Monday night.

The City of Gainesville soon will have a new showcase facility to serve both lake paddlers and the community.

Six inmates from Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto have been booked at the Habersham County Detention Center. They face charges including riot in a penal institution, violation of the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism Prevention Act, theft by extortion, battery, and other charges.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has not said why 64-year-old Dwight Anthony Brown of Blairsville targeted and shot a specific unoccupied vehicle in the Union County Primary School parking lot Thursday afternoon.

The Army has identified the two service members killed during a storm Tuesday in White County as Second Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon and Staff Sgt. George Taber.

Kelly’s Creek Road in Rabun County has reopened, roughly six hours after a truck carrying blasting materials overturned onto its side Tuesday morning.

No injuries were reported after Hall County Fire Rescue personnel responded to a fire at a small apartment complex on Gilleland Extension.

Monday afternoon’s thunderstorms resulted in some street flooding in Gainesville.