B.J. Williams

Four people escaped a pre-dawn house fire Monday morning in the South Hall area.

On Sunday, gas prices in Georgia averaged $2.46 per gallon for regular unleaded, according to this week's fuel price report from AAA - the Auto Club Group.

A rezoning vote for a 32-acre tract of land that could be home to a large apartment and retail development on Hog Mountain Road near Flowery Branch High School has been delayed by Flowery Branch City Council.

While the solicitor in neighboring Gwinnett County has decided to forego prosecution of misdemeanor marijuana cases in light of Georgia's new hemp farming law, that won't be the case in Hall County.

The City of Gainesville has hired Robyn Lynch, the current Executive Director of Lake Lanier Olympic Park, as the new Director of Tourism for the city.

The Gainesville Fire Department spent about three hours at the scene of a commercial fire on Old Oakwood Road Thursday night.

A rezoning request from McEver Road United Methodist Church for a new church site was supposed to go before Flowery Branch City Council for a final vote Thursday night. The church, however, withdrew its request with no explanation.

The City of Flowery Branch has declared Friday, August 16 "Logan Simmons Day" in the city in honor of the young Chick-Fil-A employee who saved a child from choking earlier this summer.

Gainesville police continue their search for a Braselton man who ran from a traffic stop on Thompson Bridge Road this past weekend.

Georgia's unemployment rate ticked downward in July, approaching the all-time low, according to numbers released Thursday morning by State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler.