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The Varnell City Council will have at least one contested race after the city's first day of qualifying on Wednesday.

One of two IHOP employees seen in a viral video fighting over an apparent wrong order pleaded guilty to lesser charges in Whitfield County Superior Court and was released from jail.

Dalton Utilities is looking at borrowing up to $100 million to fund scheduled maintenance and improvement of its electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems.

Navigating the world of personal finance -- creating budgets, buying homes, knowing how to invest -- can be difficult and stressful.

With an increase in maintenance and operation costs looming with the opening of the new Hammond Creek Middle School in 2021, the Dalton Board of Education voted Monday night to maintain its current millage rate as a hedge against the economy's future.

The last two men elected mayor of Dalton — current Mayor Dennis Mock and former Mayor David Pennington — have qualified to be on the ballot for the Nov. 5 municipal election for the city's top elected post.

The Dalton Police Department is working leads, but so far has nothing new to report in the search for a man they say tried to kill two men on Sunday night.

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Last week, members of the Dalton City Council discussed the possibility of a developer building a hotel next to the Dalton Convention Center in a work session open to the public and the media.

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The Dalton Police Department is investigating a late-night shooting incident that sent two people to local hospitals with injuries that are not considered to be life-threatening. The man who investigators identified as the shooter, 21-year-old Jobanie Martinez, is still at large.

The first time Don went to jail, he was 13. Now 58, he has been in and out of treatment rehabs and lockups pretty much his entire life.

As northwest Georgia's flooring industry and technology-focused businesses continue to grow, the demand for trained specialists is greater than ever. In an attempt to help give these companies what they need, Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) is launching three new industry-focus…

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ETON -- School is still a couple of weeks away from starting for Murray County students, but when the kids return to Eton Elementary, they will have something the school hasn't had since 1993 -- new playground equipment.

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Whitfield County Environmental Health conducts inspections of restaurants and other food establishments. The inspectors may require a re-inspection. Restaurants and other food establishments are required by law to post their most recent inspection permit. The Daily Citizen-News lists areas w…

Funding for home repair costs is available for low-income homeowners within the city of Dalton through the city’s Minor Home Repair Grant Program.

BETHEL, N.Y. — The Beatles were not here 50 years ago when more than 400,000 people crowded shoulder-to-shoulder over acres of farm land to listen to rock ‘n’ roll music and define a cultural happening known as Woodstock.

When 5-year-old Lillie Mae Farmer had the opportunity to meet her hero Cinderella at Disney World in June, she said the princess told her to "dream big."

The Creative Arts Guild and the Whitfield Healthcare Foundation invite the community to Art Infusion, an opportunity to preview and sponsor art for the Peeples Cancer Institute.

During the past nine years, 312 people have graduated from Whitfield County Emergency Management’s CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) program, learning the most effective ways to offer a helping hand to their community after a disaster.

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An opponent of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax that failed in March was selected as chairman of a new citizen advisory committee that will make recommendations on the projects and terms for the next SPLOST.

The hot topics along with the biscuits and bacon at the annual Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce "State of the Community" breakfast Thursday morning were sewers, other capital projects, new housing developments and the push for another Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).

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After decades of suggestions and proposals for improving the area around the Dalton Convention Center, Dalton Mayor Dennis Mock says he has been in talks with a Ringgold developer for a hotel on land near the center on Dug Gap Mountain.

For the sixth straight year, Dalton Public Schools officials expect to maintain a millage (property tax) rate of 8.2 mills, but tax revenues are expected to increase by 0.95% through rising property values.

The final two selections have been made for the 2020 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) citizen advisory committee.

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Dalton City Council member Tyree Goodlett says his mailbox has been struck twice since May. In all, it has been struck five times since the U.S. Postal Service turned that mailbox and approximately 50 others on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fields Avenue so that the front of the mailb…

A new partnership between Gov. Brian Kemp and state Labor Commissioner Mark Butler will be highlighted on Wednesday, Aug. 28, when the commissioner hosts an employer summit in Dalton.

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One of the best ways to improve a community and add to the services provided by a government is through the passage of a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), according to small businessman Chris Shiflett.

A student who reportedly placed another student in a headlock in a restroom at North Murray High School, leading to the other student falling face first onto the floor and suffering injuries, will not return to North Murray when classes resume on Sept. 3, a school administrator said.

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They've volunteered for positions with a great deal of responsibility but little real power.

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Whitfield County Environmental Health conducts inspections of restaurants and other food establishments. The inspectors may require a re-inspection. Restaurants and other food establishments are required by law to post their most recent inspection permit. The Daily Citizen-News lists areas w…

Almost 20 years after Billy Nimmons retired as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dalton and became pastor emeritus of the church, he remained a pastor for many.

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From entrepreneurs seeking help in the community's first business incubator to people coming from as far away as Atlanta to attend concerts in downtown Dalton, not quite two years into a five-year effort to revitalize Dalton and Whitfield County, officials with Believe Greater Dalton say the…

Monday's 6 p.m. meeting of the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners will be its first in the new county office space in the Wells Fargo Bank building at 201 S. Hamilton St. in downtown Dalton.

Four years ago, the Whitfield County Fire Department and Sheriff's Office, Whitfield County Emergency Medical Services and the Dalton fire and police departments were using an analog radio system that relied on 40-year-old technology.

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A 69-year-old Tunnel Hill man was charged with two counts of child molestation after two children told their mothers the man, the boyfriend of their grandmother, inappropriately touched them.

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When patients come into Hamilton Medical Center's critical care unit, they are often dealing with multiple organ failures and need close attention from the nurses and doctors who staff the unit.

Dalton State College’s Wright School of Business has already given Santi Angel the skills and tools he needs to succeed. And with the opening of the newly expanded and renovated Gignilliat Memorial Hall for the fall semester, Angel believes those opportunities and potential for success will …