Friends and strangers alike offered their support Thursday for a grieving Buford family, even as crews continued to search a third day for 13-year-old Griffin Prince, who has been missing since Monday's fatal boat crash.
As authorities continue to search for Griffin Prince, 13, who is feared drowned after a Monday boating accident that killed his 9-year-old brother Jake, those who know the family are asking for prayers.
A divided Gainesville City Council passed its fiscal 2013 budget and a property tax rate roll-up at Tuesday's meeting.
Gainesville City Council approved the purchase of the old jail in midtown Gainesville from Hall County for $7.2 million at Tuesday night's meeting.
Good News at Noon is losing its full-time pastor and director, the Rev. Edward Grant, at the end of the month.
The vote could be close, but Gainesville City Council is expected to give final approval to a property tax rate roll-up with its fiscal year 2013 budget tonight.
For the second year in a row, the Gainesville-Hall County Community Service Center is undergoing some major changes.
The most important lesson Tray Ross said he learned about fatherhood from his own father was this: "Anybody can be a daddy, but only a real man can be a father."
Gainesville Police took two men in custody after Peach State Bank employees reported suspicious behavior when they got change at the branch on Academy Street.
Georgia posted the highest foreclosure rate in the nation last month, according to online real estate service site RealtyTrac.
What a difference a year makes. Hall County government rolled through its fiscal year 2013 budget hearing Thursday with no comment from the public. Zero speakers. Compare that to last year when hundreds showed up and dozens spoke out during the fiscal year 2012 hearing against proposed budget slashes meant to close an $11.5 million gap. That meeting lasted more than three hours. This one, which included a budget presentation by Finance Director Vickie Neikirk, ...
Starting next week, an expanded Georgia Bureau of Investigation fingerprint identification system will include palm prints.
Hall County holds its first public hearing on the fiscal year 2013 budget tonight. Some details of the proposed $89.2 million spending plan have already been released for public consumption, like the fact that it includes no increase in the property tax rate. The plan also looks to reduce existing employee furlough days from 12 to three, employee retirement contributions could come back in January, and the emergency management service has earmarked funds for an ...
Last year was a record-breaking year for the volume of tornadoes in the U.S.; and 2012 has had its share of deadly ones, too.
Downtown Gainesville property owners call it an eyesore, but one prominent Hall County architect says the old House of Kustom building - scheduled for demolition this week - may hold historical significance.
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