Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of The Independent Florida Alligator's archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query.
1000 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
On a spring day in April 2024, teachers and parents at Newberry Elementary filed in to cast ballots determining if the school would be converted into a charter.
The upcoming Newberry municipal election puts three open seats on the ballot.
Upside-down American flags fluttered alongside bold signs that read “Hate does not make America great” and “Stop the d*cktator” as passing cars honked in spirited support.
The Alachua County School Board unanimously approved a plan to restore the district's financial stability at a meeting Tuesday night.
For basketball fans, March means slam dunks, buzzer beaters and brackets. For Alachua County Animal Services, it means waived adoption fees, or “Match Madness.”
When Andrew Spar was in first grade, he couldn't read.
Brian McLaughlin loved sports. There was no question about that.
Loud. Dirty. Expensive. Those are some ways Devin Kinnally described off-campus housing.
In her home nestled on Southeast 23rd Lane, Conjwanna Robinson had a family and three decades of history — but the Florence Landfill was enough to make her want to pack up her life and leave. She wasn’t alone.
UFPD officers arrested a student during a history lecture Wednesday, pulling him from a class at Keene-Flint Hall in connection with a string of TV thefts from campus buildings and student apartment complexes.
On a partly cloudy Tuesday afternoon, nearly 500 people gathered at the intersection of University Avenue and Main Street to protest President Donald Trump’s administration.
When Alachua County School Board member Kay Abbitt resigned in December, she left more than just an empty seat. She left a heavier workload for her colleagues and lingering uncertainty over when Gov. Ron DeSantis will name her replacement.
Young adults tend to fumble. Some drop a class; some get busted for marijuana or fake IDs. For the latter, former State Attorney and Florida Sen. Rod Smith introduced a still-thriving solution in the early 1990s: deferred prosecution agreements, or DPAs.
Local law enforcement arrested a woman who fired shots in the Butler Plaza Walmart parking lot Saturday after an hours-long standoff with police, according to Gainesville Police Department.
A gaggle of teenage boys stampeded through the woods in 1984. It was just beyond 15-year-old Johnell Gainey’s new home in Southeast Gainesville — a paradise for childhood imagination, for slingshots and BB guns and exploring in the summer heat.
Amid rising fears of federal immigration crackdowns in schools, Alachua County Public Schools issued a memo outlining strict protocols for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, granting it “broad authority” to interview and remove students in schools without a warrant.
For most of the year, the Forster’s tern lives on the coast. But on an afternoon in the middle of February, the sleek, black-capped bird could be seen at Depot Park’s pond in downtown Gainesville.
A Gainesville man was arrested on Monday in a raid led by the Gainesville Police Department and Alachua County Animal Resources on felony charges of animal cruelty and drug trafficking. Fourteen dogs were rescued from abusive conditions, according to the arrest report.
Around 50 members of the Gainesville community gathered on Sunday to witness the exhibit introduced as“A Seat at the Table: Food, Poetry and Art,” at the A. Quinn Jones Museum.
A year ago, Gainesville’s homeless community living in “tent city” awoke to find five-hour eviction notices pinned to their tents, shopping carts and backpacks.
Solutions by The State News
