Commerce News

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun's staff will host a series of "Congress on the Square" meetings next month in counties in the 10th Congressional District.

A refrigeration component manufacturer says it is hiring 60 new employees for a new production line.

Hansen Technologies, a refrigeration component manufacturer, is hiring 60 new employees to man a new production line in Commerce.

Instead of losing jobs, Jackson County will be gaining positions after a manufacturing plant is closed.

From infancy, people were worried about Michael Levigne. The 6-year-old boy, who apparently was shot and killed by his grandfather June 7, left behind a caring grandmother, a little brother, a loving but unstable father, a distant birth mother, a collection of well-loved Thomas the Tank Engine toys and a 1,200-page Department of Family and Children ...

A Tennessee hospital management firm recently moved to purchase cash-strapped BJC Medical Center in Commerce.

A Colbert brother and sister died in a fire and explosion apparently fueled by gunpowder early Sunday morning near Colbert Elementary School.

Commerce's City Lights music festival always is held the last weekend of June - even if it means competing with a certain other music festival 15 miles south of town.

Some trees were toppled as stormy weather moved across northeast Georgia overnight.

A Jackson County sheriff's deputy was injured Wednesday morning after a pickup truck pulled out in front of him on U.S. Highway 441 in Commerce, according to a radio operator with the Georgia State Patrol's Athens post.

How to help A charitable fund for the family of slain 6-year-old Michael Levigne has been set up through First United Methodist Church.

A crash on the Commerce bypass killed a Hall County man and left two others with serious injuries.

One person was killed and two others were injured in an accident on U.S. Highway 441 in Commerce Monday morning.

Friends have established the 'Michael Levigne Memorial Fund' at Community Bank and Trust in Commerce.

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel touted her ability as a crisis solver as she campaigned for governor during a Thursday meeting of the Greater Columbia County Republican Women.

One of the men died. The other is still recovering at the Still Burn Center in Augusta.

An apparent motive emerges in the killing of a 6-year-old Commerce boy. Police say Robert Clark may have shot his grandson to death because Michael Lavigne either dropped a piece of watermelon, or cut it wrong.

Commerce police say a local man shot his wife and grandson this afternoon, killing the 6-year-old boy before being shot himself after a standoff with police.

Police say a man shot and killed his 6-year-old grandson, and wounded his wife at home on Troy Street in Commerce, Georgia.

Dalton Mayor David Pennington is about to hit the water during the Cookout on the Corner Friday at the chamber.