Alpharetta News

Alpharetta Recreation and Parks Department announces the eighth annual Children's Festival for Saturday, March 27, from 10 a.m. to 3p.m. This event will take place on the Alpharetta Community Center Event Lawn at 175 Roswell St.

After a call that a dog was running in traffic outside the Varsity on Westside Parkway in Alpharetta on Feb.

More than 1,200 business people are expected to converge on the Marriott on Windward Parkway on Friday for a full-day of business networking, sales and seminars as the annual Business Expo of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce returns.

Alpharetta police Tuesday were investigating an overnight shooting that left a teenager nursing a gunshot wound to the arm.

Alpharetta police are investigating after a fight left two men with stab wounds.

You've come a long way, baby. Dear Ruth debuted on Broadway in 1944. Three years later it made it to Hollywood, then Off Broadway, and now to the ACT1 Theater in Alpharetta.

Alpharetta police are trying to piece together details from a fight that put two men in the hospital early Saturday morning.

Alpharetta City Council member Cheryl Oakes, joined the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Directors in January.

Alpharetta Mayor Arthur Letchas helped Troop 1459 kick-off its leadership series by sharing the qualities that make a great leader Feb.

Georgia Cancer Specialists Chief Operating Officer Wendy Lenz with Alpharetta donors for the eighth annual Tots 2 Tots suitcase drive.

Autobell Car Wash Inc. has opened a wash at 5374 Faircroft Drive in southern Forsyth County, just off McGinnis Ferry Road adjacent to Johns Creek and Alpharetta.

Alpharetta is seeking more homeowners, and is tweaking its land use policy to welcome the minor gentry of condominium customers once the property market recovers.

As indicated in the paper, Fulton Schools face extraordinary fiscal challenges. This is particularly true of the sports programs.

Two architectural firms seeking the county jail design project gave their presentations Tuesday morning to the Douglas County Board of Commissioners .

Verizon Wireless recently announced that it invested more than $184 million in 2009 - some of it in northeast Georgia - on installing 41 new cell sites, additional network capacity in over 75 cities and numerous other projects to enhance services and coverage for wireless customers across Georgia.

Raymond Joseph will shortly board a plane to his native Haiti with the help of generous people who never met him.

It's no secret the No. 1 problem for most North Fulton residents is traffic, but when all the cities get together to talk about those issues, it's news.

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., will address the Alpharetta Rotary Club on Friday, Feb.

Electronics giant Philips is leaving its Perimeter area office building -- with its distinctive neon sign visible along I-285 -- and consolidating Atlanta operations in Alpharetta.