Stephens County News

The Stephens County Hospital Authority will appeal the state Department of Community Health's decision to allow the Ty Cobb Healthcare System to build a new hospital in Lavonia.

Region 7-AAA is no longer Hall County-dominated, while each classification featured at least one change for an area school, as the Georgia High School Association released their new region alignments for the 2010-12 school years on Wednesday.

Will the third time be the charm? That's what elections officials and the people in Martin, Ga., must be asking themselves.

A new hospital is coming to Franklin County, despite a nearby competitor's efforts to halt it.

Rev. Ayers on a mission trip to Africa. TOCCOA - The GBI has completed it's investigation into the police shooting of a northeast Georgia pastor, now two special prosecutors will decide what happens next.

Fred Bahlau, who fought with the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, holds his hat to his heart as he listens to the Stephens County High School chorus sing Friday in Toccoa.

State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond says the Georgia Department of Labor's Toccoa Career Center, along with several other local organizations, will sponsor a job fair for employers and job seekers in the area.

Not yet two weeks after torrential rains washed out roads, damaged hundreds of homes and knocked out water service in Stephens County, life is returning to normal for most in the Northeast Georgia county.

FEMA has opened up a Disaster Recovery Center in Toccoa, Ga., to help victims hit hardest by the storm that swept through that area Sept.

Victims of last week's severe storms and flooding in Georgia - including those in Stephens and Gwinnett counties - can apply for tax relief.

Periodic deluges that continued over the weekend forced authorities to closed road and schools around Northeast Georgia today due to flooding that claimed two motorists' lives in metro Atlanta.

Vice President Joe Biden is pledging the federal government's support to Georgia residents displaced by severe storms that swept through the region earlier this week.

Watershed dams built to hold back runoff performed as designed during this month's storms, though inspectors will continue checking 120 dams across North Georgia to look for erosion damage.

The Athens area so far has escaped major damage in a week of rain that has killed people in metro Atlanta and left a swath of destruction from Northwest Georgia to Stephens County.

Heavy downpours have shut down roads and school across north Georgia as the area is again besieged by severe thunderstorms.

Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they are still waiting on crime lab results in the case of Jonathan Ayers, the Lavonia pastor shot and killed by Stephens County drug agents two weeks ago.

For two decades, the Madison County-based Broad River Watershed Association has dedicated itself to the protection and management of the mighty Broad River, which flows south through nearly a dozen Northeast Georgia counties.

He wanted to be serving the Lord on the day he died. And friends and family said this weekend they believe that's what The Rev.

Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday that they were investigating the death of a Lavonia minister.

A north Georgia pastor was shot to death by police when he struck an officer with his car after he was seen in a vehicle with a drug suspect, authorities told CNN.