B.J. Williams

The man accused of robbing two banks in North Georgia last week was arrested as he tried to enter a restaurant in Chattanooga, TN Saturday.

Gov. Brian Kemp is scheduled to announce the state's plans for additional steps designed to support Georgia's hospitals as COVID hospitalizations continue to rise.

A 25-year veteran of the Gwinnett County Police Department is set to take the reins of the department later this month.

One Hall County firefighter was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for treatment of a minor leg injury and another was treated for heat exhaustion at the scene of a house fire in the northeastern part of the county.

Dr. Douglas Harry Winters, a former superintendent for the Hall County School District, died Wednesday, Aug. 11 at the age of 82.

The Gainesville Police Department has confirmed that the suspect in a Friday afternoon bank robbery in the city is the same man who robbed a bank in Toccoa earlier this week.

Gainesville native Dr. Thomas Weston Hodge III, the former Director of Immunogenetics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died July 31 in St. Simon's Island, Ga.

A Flowery Branch man now has been charged with second-degree vehicular homicide in connection with a deadly wreck that happened on Atlanta Highway in April.

As promised, the Hall County School District has released a weekly count of COVID cases among students and staff at the 35 schools in the district.

In April, City of Gainesville officials announced the iconic Engine 209 would be moved from the corner of Jesse Jewell Parkway and West Academy Street to a new location, and now the time for the move has come.