Economic growth is a great thing, but it also has its challenges. That's what Hall County's municipal leaders learned at their quarterly Joint Municipal Association meeting Monday night.
Buoyed in part by labor woes on the West Coast, the booming seaports in Savannah and Brunswick saw another fiscal year of record-smashing amounts of cargo moving across their docks, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Monday.
The Georgia Department of Transportation will close up to three lanes of Interstate 85 northbound overnight for next two weeks for asphalt repairs beginning in Norcross at Jimmy Carter Blvd/Hwy 140, exit 99 to Buford Highway 20, exit 115.
The national average price for gasoline dipped 4 cents last week, and prices in the southeast fell even further, according to the weekly fuel price report from AAA.
The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in June was 6.2 percent, up three-tenths of a percentage point from 5.9 percent in May.
“Game On with Katie B. Davis,” the popular sports talk program on WDUN, is expanding to three hours and changing stations, while Russell Brown has been named the new host of WDUN’s “Afternoon News Wrap."
First-time claims for unemployment insurance (UI) in Georgia were up 16.7 percent in June, compared to May, with the increase attributed mostly to temporary claims filed in manufacturing,
