Ken Stanford

"How to build a scarecrow." That topic will be covered in a series of six workshops in Hoschton starting this week as part of the town's effort to set a new Guinness World Record for the most scarecrows in one area.

ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, parent company of Lanier Village Estates, has signed a purchase agreement on a 48-acre land parcel located in Matthews, N.C.

Gainesville attorney Sonny Sykes qualified Friday to oppose Hall County State Court Judge Charlie Wynne in the November General Election

South Carolina state troopers plan to join officers in neighboring states in a crackdown on dangerous driving on Interstate 85.

Sixty Gainesville Bank & Trust employees are being laid off as a result of the GB&T-SunTrust merger.

Marina Bay on Lake Lanier, a resort-style residential community on the northern shores of Lake Lanier off Cool Springs Road in North Hall, announces its first Concert in the Park at the community's Horseshoe Park on June 28.

Sugar Hill Elementary School principal Rick Quarles is moving to another Hall County school.

A new Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities at North Georgia College & State University is expanding its initiatives thanks to a a grant from the University System Board of Regents.

New jobless rates for the Gainesville area show only one county - Habersham - with a decline over the past month.

The estranged wife of a slain Gainesville native has been jailed in Nashville, Tenn., but she is not facing murder charges.