Ken Stanford

White County property owners can expect the education portion of their property tax bill to go up this year.

The mayor of Hazleton, Pa., who drew nationwide attention for his crackdown on illegal immigration, has been named the state's Mayor of the Year.

A Gainesville woman was treated for smoke inhalation Sunday night following a fire at Norwood Apartments on Park Hill Drive.

Hot, hazy conditions in the Atlanta area are expected to continue Monday, and a smog alert has been issued.

The Forsyth County Commission will examine credit card use by county employees after a newspaper reported the county is among the most generous in metro Atlanta in passing out cards to workers.

Two people have been killed and 14 injured in a pair of explosions aboard public buses in China, just weeks before the start of the Olympics.

The Deep South's poor residents are plagued by HIV and the region isn't receiving its fair share of federal money for prevention and support, according to a report to be released Monday.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And, that's exactly what a young man from Gainesville who failed by a little more than a second to make the U.S. Olympics team this year intends to do.

Nearly 1,200 Lanier Technical College students graduated Friday night.

A long-running legal battle between 50 mostly rural Georgia school districts, including the Commerce City and Towns County systems, and the state over education funding is heading to court - again.