Contracts totaling $6.5 million were awarded recently for three road and bridge construction projects in northeast Georgia.

Drought conditions across north Georgia are expected to worsen this week and the late-summer/early-fall early-fall heatwave is expected to continue.

Parents struggling to make ends meet or trying to find a job with young children can run into a major roadblock: the rising cost of disposable diapers and just how necessary access to clean, disposable diapers are. That need led the Junior League of Hall County to found the Diaper Bank of North Georgia in 2018, and the two partners will be collecting donations next week as part of the annual Diaper Need Awareness Week.

Two Banks County men have been charged in connection to the death of Jimmy Anglin, a man reported missing from Oglethorpe County in November 2017.

Qualifying for the Habersham County Commission District 5 Special Election on Nov. 5 wrapped up Friday.

The Gainesville Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Lake Lanier Convention & Visitors Bureau's Stacey Dickson were among the winners of nine tourism awards at the recent Governor's Tourism Conference.