Cumming GA

Three Hall County planning commissioners have filed an injunction against the county, seeking to stop removal proceedings against them that are planned to take place later this month. The Hall County Board of Commissioners voted on Nov. 18 to appoint special counsel and draft written charges against Planning...

The Hall County Board of Education passed the district’s new cellphone policy, keeping phones and other electronic devices out of students hands in kindergarten to eighth grade.

Commissioners say the increases are needed to ease the impact on inflation and to help recruit and retain workers.

Three longtime LongHorn Steakhouse grill cooks in the metro Atlanta area have officially joined an ultra-exclusive club: they’ve each grilled more than one million steaks over their careers. Sammy Cisic from the Alpharetta location, Artemio Mendoza in Cornelia, and Rara Segundo at the McDonough restaurant were...

If a student were to walk into room 1203, Ms. Moran’s chemistry class, it would look like every other science classroom at Lambert with rows of black tables with goggles ready to be worn by students eager to learn about the scientific world around them. However, if the student were to walk further into her room to...

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Parents give everything for their developmentally disabled children, but they worry about the future. Tammy Miller and Beth Burns, Cumming adoptive mothers of children with special needs, said that thought kept them up at night. So, they set out to find a solution. “We wonder...

The dust has settled from Sunday's afternoon of celebrations in Gainesville for the annual Christmas on Green Street festivities. Now, the awards and accolades have been announced from the parade float entrants for 2025. The social media page for Downtown Gainesville announced Monday afternoon that the votes have...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Cherokee County, GA – Drivers in northern Cherokee County are being asked to steer clear of Owen’s Store Road this afternoon after a crash prompted a full closure near Jessie Lane, according to the Cherokee...

The city of Ball Ground is hosting a retirement celebration for longtime Mayor Rick Roberts Wednesday. The celebration for Roberts is set for from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at The Wheeler House, 510 Gilmer Ferry Road in downtown Ball Ground. There will be a shuttle service from the Ball Ground Senior Center, 388...

ATLANTA — A pretrial review hearing that was to take place across Tuesday and Wednesday in the death penalty case of Robert Aaron Long, the convicted shooter in the 2021 metro Atlanta spa shootings, has been moved back. Court officials acknowledged Tuesday the originally hearing scheduled has been continued,...