B.J. Williams

As we prepare to spring forward overnight for the return to Daylight Saving Time, Georgia's Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner is making his bi-annual appeal to check the batteries in your smoke detector.

A Buford warehouse used to store clothing was damaged by fire early Thursday morning, but investigators are not sure yet how the fire started.

If all goes as planned, a new bridge being built over Lake Lanier north of Gainesville will bear the name of Dep. Nicolas Blane Dixon, the Hall County Sheriff's Office deputy who was shot and killed in the line of duty last July.

A Dahlonega man was killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle accident in the Murrayville area, according to the Georgia State Patrol.

A Georgia county has opted to ditch the state's new voting machines and switch to hand-marked paper ballots during early voting for the March presidential primary, despite a warning from the county's attorney that the decision could result in litigation that's tough to defend in court.

The state of Georgia has started the year off on the right foot when it comes to the state's employment health.

A bill approved by Georgia's state House on Wednesday would restrict what one lawmaker called ``heinous'' practices by pharmacy benefit managers companies that run prescription drug coverage for insurers and other groups.

Even though spring break is still a few weeks away on the calendar, a counselor at a Hall County elementary school is already thinking about summer and a first-of-its-kind camp for children who have suffered trauma in their young lives.

State employees would receive three weeks of paid time off when they become new parents under a proposal backed by Republican leaders in the Georgia House.

Shuler Road in northwest Hall County reopened Tuesday, March 3, nearly three weeks after being closed in the wake of significant rainfall, according to officials with Hall County government.