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With swamps and nature parks galore, Gainesville is renowned for its breathtaking landscapes. While many recognize the scenic beauty of the local environment, the practice that makes this remains commonly unexplored: prescribed fires.
Both the Florida men’s and women’s track and field teams headed to College Station, Texas to compete in the McFerrin 12-Degree Invitational Saturday. Of the 58 athletes representing Florida, 39 men and 19 women competed in 24 total events. The Gators competed against Baylor, TCU, Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
More than 40 years ago, private investment abandoned East Gainesville. Where bank branches, supermarkets and restaurants once served thriving neighborhoods, liquor stores, Dollar Generals and vacant lots became what passed for commerce.
A season opener and a new NCAA record -– typically, those two don’t end up in the same sentence. However, redshirt junior Parker Valby’s performance at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener Saturday afternoon made those terms synonymous.
A Gainesville Zaxby’s worker robbed the store he worked at Oct. 21 and was arrested Thursday.
Police arrested a Gainesville man Tuesday after he allegedly committed a drive-by shooting against one of his coworkers over a dispute about him being in the Crips gang, according to a police report.
Florida’s springs are a part of what make this state so unique. For many students in the Gainesville area, names like Ichetucknee and Santa Fe river are associated with circular tubes and moseying down one of Florida’s natural gifts.
Florida lost set one to Texas A&M in a pivotal defensive battle. Set two, however, brought the Gators back to life, and from then on, everything seemed to go Florida’s way.
Set three proved to be a see-saw battle but the Gators couldn’t give up.
When Cat Deesse stayed at the Ronald McDonald House of Jacksonville while her 12-year-old daughter received spinal fusion surgery, she had no idea she would later become the chief financial officer of North Central Florida’s own RMH.
Every day, 95-year-old retiree Francine Taylor sits peacefully in her wheelchair, absorbing the cool winds, which delicately touch her face, outside her senior living center in West Gainesville. With her son by her side, they hold each other hand in hand. Racing through her head as she stares mute may be millions of memories from her years in World War II Europe, where she and her family became target to a mass Jewish genocide.
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There’s no shortage of deer in Jack Patton’s home. Taxidermy mounts adorn just about every wall, antlers hang from drying racks in his studio and decapitated heads wrapped in trash bags fill the freezers.
After recent controversies surrounding UF Student Government, polls for SG elections opened Tuesday morning for students to elect their Fall 2023 Senators.
When UF sophomore Ella Raney decided she would go to her first electronic dance music festival, EDC Orlando, she quickly became concerned about the risk of witnessing substance abuse or an overdose.
Stormwater Management has installed 4,600 feet of permanent piping and four permanent pumps which have helped alleviate flooding in “legacy flooding” areas. These areas were built prior to stormwater regulations; there are nine total in Alachua County.
As Florida’s Big Bend communities recover from the devastating impacts of Hurricane Idalia, the Alachua County community is grateful to not have met the storm's eye.
Richard Conley was corralling his cat Marley into a carrier and loading his car with essentials when a highway patrol officer arrived on his doorstep in Cedar Key around noon Aug. 29.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrived at the Gainesville Regional Airport at around 1 p.m. Saturday to address damages in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia.
Some students stay up to date with UF Student Government through various social platforms, like Instagram and Yik Yak, and word of mouth. However, students may feel as though the issues they are passionate about don’t get adequate attention.
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