Bryan Pirkle

Habersham County authorities have shut down one lane of Toccoa Highway following a single-vehicle accident Monday evening.

The North Georgia Community Foundation Board of Directors has voted to create its first affiliate foundation – the Forsyth County Community Foundation.

The Georgia Mountain Food Bank (GMFB) is hosting a Stock the Shelves Campaign.

Hall County firefighters battled a mobile home fire in the northern part of the county early Sunday morning.

The Hall County Tax Assessors office will mail property assessment notices April 17 to all owners of land and any improvements to it. As required by state law, this annual notice will include a written explanation of the value of taxable property and an estimate of the property tax bill.

The Gainesville Fire Department was called to the scene of a residential fire near Brenau University Wednesday afternoon.

Georgia lawmakers have approved a $40 billion state spending plan for the next year, giving raises to the state's top judges and pushing $103 million in costs for some part-time school employees' health insurance to local districts.

Sheriff's officials say a couple wanted in the death of a man who was beaten and strangled in Kansas have been arrested in central Georgia.

As nuclear talks with Iran approach a critical deadline, the United States is considering letting Tehran run hundreds of centrifuges at a once-secret, fortified underground bunker in exchange for limits on centrifuge work at other sites, officials tell The Associated Press.

A group of citizens from Hall County made an emotional plea to Hall County commissioners at Monday afternoon's work session to rescind a vote that changes the name of a portion of Ga. Highway 347 from Friendship Road to Lanier Islands Parkway.