B.J. Williams

This weekend, new names will be added to the granite pillars that make up the Circle of Honor in the Freedom Garden at the Northeast Georgia History Center in Gainesville.

Police are trying to identify a suspect in a rape that they say occurred in downtown Athens.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in April was 5.5 percent, unchanged from March. The rate was 6.1 percent in April 2015.

As expected, Gainesville City Council members voted their unanimous approval on two zoning issues for a new development that will replace the current Atlanta Street Apartments on E.E. Butler Parkway.

Brad Morris was reappointed Wednesday to another four-year term as the Circuit Public Defender for the Northeastern Judicial Circuit, which encompasses Hall and Dawson counties.

Several schools in the north Gwinnett County area were placed on voluntary lockdown during the noon hour Wednesday as police searched for a theft suspect.

​The Piedmont College Theatre Department is now enrolling middle and high school students for the 2016 Summer Theatre Camp, which will be held June 20–24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Swanson Center for Performing Arts and Communications in Demorest.

The Gainesville City School System has scheduled a community meeting for Monday, May 23 to give an update on plans for the new Mundy Mill school.

Delta Air Lines will not continue its sponsorship of Atlanta's Fox Theatre after a rival airline rented the facility for an event.

Gainesville residents who work in Airport Industrial Park will soon get some traffic relief - especially at the end of the work day.