Bryan Pirkle

Absentee ballots will be available by mail for the May 20 General Election primaries in Hall County beginning this week.

The Lanier Tea Party Patriots will host the 3rd Annual Tax Day Rally at Poultry Park in downtown Gainesville on April 12 and organizers say a number of U.S. Senatorial candidates plan to attend.

Republican candidates for Georgia's open U.S. Senate seat debated Saturday whether Congress has pushed hard enough for deepening the Savannah harbor and whether the federal government should keep giving homeowners a break on flood insurance.

President Barack Obama asked Congress Thursday to end the government's bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a move that he said would address privacy concerns but maintain the administration's ability to counter terrorism.

Experts gave dueling opinions Wednesday on what likely killed a pregnant Army soldier whose husband is charged with murder, leaving a military judge to sort out whether she was strangled to death, suffered a sudden heart attack or died from causes that can't be determined.

An autopsy failed to reveal whether an attack, illness or some other cause killed a pregnant Army soldier whose husband is charged with killing her, a military medical examiner testified Tuesday.

The House has approved a bill to prevent the Obama administration from imposing a stream-protection rule for coal mining that government experts say would eliminate thousands of jobs.

Disney is buying Maker Studios, an operator of YouTube video channels, for $500 million, as consumers watch more videos online.

Haiti's cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world, the top U.N. envoy there said Monday.

Rain is expected to hamper the search Monday for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as a growing number of planes focus on an expanded area of the southern Indian Ocean where French radar detected potential debris.