B.J. Williams

A man who tried to carjack two vehicles and break into a house in the Buford area Monday was thwarted at every turn by his intended victims.

Both the Hall County School District and the Gainesville City School System held their annual spelling bees this past week, and the top spellers in the two districts will now advance to the district competition.

The City of Suwanee has named a new police chief and a new city clerk following the recent retirements of two 20+ year city employees.

Two overnight fires in Hall County forced seven people out of their homes, according to Hall County Fire Services Division Chief Zachary Brackett.

For more than an hour today, advocates for immigrant workers demanded a wide-ranging investigation and financial help for those employees impacted by a deadly chemical leak at a Gainesville poultry processing plant.

A Gainesville man is being held without bond at the Hall County Jail after investigators acting on a cybertip found child sexual abuse materials at his home.

Five men and one woman, all employees of Foundation Food Group on Memorial Park Drive in Gainesville, have been identified as the victims in a deadly chemical leak at their workplace.

Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health have suspended The Medical Center of Elberton from Georgia's COVID-19 Vaccination Program, but they say there are other locations in the county for residents to receive vaccines.

Six people died Thursday and four remain hospitalized following an accident after a liquid nitrogen line ruptured at a Gainesville poultry plant.

A Republican member of Georgia's state Senate introduced a bill Wednesday that would require people to make copies of their photo ID and mail it to election officials twice to vote absentee by mail.