B.J. Williams

The Georgia Department of Labor released area jobless rates for February Thursday morning, noting that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in February was 5.3 percent, up two-tenths of a percentage point from January.

Attorney Jody Cooley, a partner in the law firm of Hulsey, Oliver, and Mahar, LLP in Gainesville has withdrawn from the firm to join the legal department at Wayne Farms LLC.

The Gainesville woman who spent seven years as the director of the agency that evolved into Challenged Child & Friends has passed away at the age of 82.

Dr. James Mellichamp, president and a professor of music at Piedmont College, will present an organ concert at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 3, 2016, in the Piedmont College Chapel in Demorest.

For the fifth year running, Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has surpassed the $1 billion mark in local and state economic impact.

Once again, Family Ties-Gainesville plans to commemorate Prevent Child Abuse Month by "planting" pinwheels on the lawn of First Baptist Church on Green Street.

An Atlanta man is going to federal prison for his conviction as part of a check-cashing ring accused of stealing hundreds of thousands dollars from banks across the Southeast.

After two people were shot in a drug deal on the campus of Georgia State University, the school's president says a search is beginning for a new police chief.

A woman charged in a weekend crash on Highway 316 in Barrow County that killed two people is a teacher at Loganville High School.

A Georgia elementary school is changing the way it conducts yoga activities in classrooms after parents complained.