U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler stopped by the Duluth-based Hands of Christ cooperative ministry on Wednesday to help volunteer bag food for clients.

Gwinnett County Animal Welfare officials are seeking a way to reduce shelter deaths and they are looking to television celebrity Rachael Ray for help.

Gwinnett County commissioners voted Tuesday afternoon to approve a late December early voting schedule that will run from Dec. 14 to Dec. 31, with the exception of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, which are county holidays. 

Nash presented her final budget proposal to county leaders, including current commissioners as well as the three new commissioners — including a new chairwoman — who will take office in January, on Tuesday morning.

Keybo Taylor's law enforcement career has been made up of a series of firsts.

Although the county certified its election results on Monday, the week ended with officials having to count every vote cast in the presidential by hand as part of a recount requested by President Donald Trump's campaign. 

Republican 7th Congressional District candidate Rich McCormick appeared to acknowledge his Democratic opponent, Carolyn Bourdeaux, had won the congressional race, but also cast doubt on election results from Gwinnett County.

After a week of counting ballots — which had been delayed because of computer errors — Gwinnett County has finished tabulating the votes from the 2020 general election and certified its results.

Newly elected Gwinnett County Commission Chairman-elect Nicole Love Hendrickson made history on Tuesday when she was elected to become Gwinnett's first person of color, and only the third woman, to be elected as the county's commission chairman.

Ballots that Gwinnett County officials had hoped to have counted on Saturday have been put off for at least a day because of continued technical issues.

Gwinnett County Democrats dominated local races in Tuesday's election, winning nearly every seat they competed for.

Voters once again rejected a tax designed to fund transit expansion in Gwinnett County on Tuesday.

As the nation eagerly watched Georgia's election results to see if the Peach State would give Joe Biden a victory over President Donald Trump in the presidential election this week, Gwinnett County was dealing with the aftermath of an election night software glitch.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden has widened his lead over President Donald Trump in Georgia to 4,235 votes after Gwinnett County uploaded 7,083 ballots into the state results system on Friday afternoon.

Gwinnett County is retaining elections staff and volunteers to work through at least Sunday as the county works to complete its count of ballots.

With ballots still being counted in Gwinnett on Thursday, Rich McCormick said he will not concede defeat to Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux in the 7th Congressional District race, and is both seeking answers about ballots and considering legal options.

Although the presidential and senate races, as well as the history made in races for local offices, grabbed the election headlines, there was another result that will impact Gwinnett residents and visitors: the county's education special purpose local option sales tax extension passed.

Efforts to adjudicate absentee ballots that Gwinnett County elections officials had trouble getting counted on Tuesday will begin Thursday morning, and is expected to continue through the end of the week, according to a county spokesman.

State Rep. Brett Harrell, who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee, and state Sen. P.K. Martin, who led the Senate Education Committee, announced their concessions Wednesday morning.

The results from Gwinnett County's transit referendum are effectively split 50-50 with the "No" votes holding a 1,749-vote advantage and thousands of absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted.

Democrats did not sweep all of the Gwinnett County school board races like they would have preferred, but they did win enough to flip control of the board on Tuesday.

Keybo Taylor, the Democratic Party candidate, defeated Chief Deputy Lou Solis — who was Conway's handpicked preferred successor — with 226,026 votes, or 57.21% of the votes cast in the race, according to unofficial results.

District Attorney Danny Porter's bid to serve one more term in office came up short on Tuesday after he was defeated by his Democratic challenger Patsy Austin-Gatson.

Georgia State University professor Carolyn Bourdeaux appears to have won the hotly contested 7th Congressional District race in a tight race against Republican Rich McCormick.

A glitch with some new software being used in Gwinnett for the first time is affecting thousands of batches of absentee ballots, and it means some ballots may not be able to be counted for a few days.

One Gwinnett County polling location that experienced a brief power outage earlier today will stay open an extra 20 minutes tonight.

After a high turnout for early and absentee voting, election day began much quieter than might have been expected in Gwinnett County.

During a rally in Buford on Monday that evoked the "deep state" conspiracy theory and allegations of hidden material on a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden as well as attacks on House Democrats, U.S. Rep. Doug Collins called for the ouster of FBI Director Christopher Wray.