Ken Stanford

Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors.

The state Transportation Board has voted to ask a state committee to green-light a proposal to add toll lanes along Ga. 400 that has been stalled for nearly four years.

People planning to fly during the holidays this year likely will have to dig deeper in their pockets.

Budget cuts proposed by the state Department of Natural Resources could close up to 13 state parks and historic sites or shorten their hours.

Jackson and Barrow counties are among the 25 fastest growing counties in the country last year.

As speculation continues about who Barack Obama will pick as his running mate, the two people from Gainesville who will be delegates to the Democratic National Convention know who they would like him to choose.

The Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday approved its largest electric rate increase in more than 30 years, citing skyrocketing fuel costs and a three-year drought that has sharply reduced its ability to generate cheap hydroelectric power.

The Georgia Department of Labor says that the unemployment rate in the metro Gainesville area rose to a preliminary 5.4 percent in July, up two-tenths of one percent from a revised 5.2 percent in June.

Faced with up to $228 million in expected budget cuts, Georgia's colleges are looking at laying off employees, increasing student fees and revoking guaranteed tuition rates.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has added to the insurance plans it accepts at it's Gainesville and Buford walk-in clinics.