B.J. Williams

Starting Monday, Dec. 9, the Georgia Department of Transportation and Georgia State University will be conducting a traffic impact study of North Georgia residents who may be impacted by the new I-85 express lanes.

Plans for a special election in March for voters to decide a special purpose local option sales tax for education may not happen after all.

Voters in Hoschton will go to the polls next month for a recall election against Mayor Teresa Kenerly and City Councilman Jim Cleveland, according to a published report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Becky Richardson will serve another term on the Braselton Town Council following her decisive victory in a Dec. 3 runoff election.

The bodies of a father and son killed in a mobile home fire in North Hall County on Sunday morning have been taken to the GBI Crime Lab for autopsy, but state investigators said there's no sign of any foul play related to the fire.

More than 16,200 shoeboxes were shipped last week from Lakewood Baptist Church on Thompson Bridge Road for the annual Operation Christmas Child ministry.

Even though the cold and wind forced the annual Love Light Tree lighting celebration indoors at the Gainesville campus of Northeast Georgia Medical Center this year, spirits remained bright.

Northside Hospital has announced plans to its open its first surgery facility in Hall County.

After receiving some anonymous tips, undercover agents with the Hall County Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad sent undercover officers into two local massage parlors and arrested three women for illegal activity.

Voters in Habersham County and Braselton have runoff elections on the calendar for Tuesday, Dec. 3.