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The City Commission decided Thursday it will not charge UF for the more than $224,000 in public security costs for the Richard Spencer event on campus.
For the Alachua County Labor Coalition, getting payment for hourly UF employees doesn’t begin or end with Hurricane Irma.
Florida fans got their first official update today on the nine UF football players who have been suspended indefinitely since August.
Alachua County Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday to discuss a $25 million plan for new fairgrounds.
While protests in Charlottesville have caused an upset nationally, a Confederate statue in Gainesville was removed Monday with little fanfare from passersby.
Last week on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Republican Rep. Ted Yoho said it was understandable that the president’s eldest child, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer for information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.
When Assistant Principal Ed Haukland stepped foot onto the field of his elementary school April 29, he knew he’d be getting dunked underwater.
Speaking on the phone with New York Times best-selling author Kami Garcia, there was a moment interrupted by the excited yipping of her two dogs.
Alachua County libraries are helping formerly incarcerated people or anyone interested in getting back in the workforce gain the necessary skills through several workshops.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Santa Fe College aims to encourage volunteerism and leadership among local women.
The Gainesville Fine Arts Association will host its 10th annual Fine Arts Fair in Tioga Town Center this weekend, where residents can experience and celebrate Gainesville’s thriving art community.
Today, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, advances to her final confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate. Public outcry against DeVos has exploded in a big way (or, to borrow an expression from our president, “big league” or “bigly” or whatever). A spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Senate received about 1.5 million calls every day last week; a staff member of Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said his office received 80,000 letters pertaining solely to DeVos’ nomination. With a likely 50-50 split for and against her confirmation, Vice President Mike Pence might just make an unprecedented journey to the Senate floor to break the tie for a cabinet nominee.
For 38 years, Susan Griffin has made a living painting faces.
Chris Rodd-Layedra, 24, and Sara Greenberg, 22, practice a fighting routine at the Alachua County Fairgrounds on Wednesday. Rodd-Layedra fights with a sword while Greenberg fights with a staff and a stuffed squirrel, which sits on her shoulders.
Jess Hardy and Katherine Triplett met while working at a primate sanctuary.
After a tornado watch in Alachua County on Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service honored UF as a StormReady school.
Hundreds of members of the Gainesville community gathered on the Alachua County Fairgrounds on Jan. 30-31 and Feb. 5-7 for the Hoggetowne Medieval Faire, a bustling collection of knights, queens and sword fights.
I’m sad and disappointed most UF students — probably an overwhelming majority — don’t participate in local politics. We spend practically four years of our lives in Gainesville. We eat, live and spend a lot of money in this fair city. When issues of utility rates, transportation and public safety are brought up in local politics, students should pay close attention — is there a better time to get involved in Gainesville politics than right now?
It’s been 30 years since the first knights and maidens gathered in Gainesville.
The Human Rights Council of North Central Florida endorsed 2016 mayoral candidate Lauren Poe and District 4 Commission candidate Adrian Hayes-Santos on Thursday.
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