Local Wildlife Conservation houses more than 100 animals, hosts tours
For the first eight years of her life, Gaby lived in a 4-by-6-foot rolling cage within a traveling zoo — far under the legal requirements to house a tiger.
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For the first eight years of her life, Gaby lived in a 4-by-6-foot rolling cage within a traveling zoo — far under the legal requirements to house a tiger.
Dr. Sankalp Gilda was exhausted. He balanced 60-hour work weeks with a doctoral student load at the behest of his supervisor, migraines and regular discrimination from his status as an Indian international student.
The city of Gainesville unveiled a new historical marker to commemorate Black individuals who were victims of post-Reconstruction lynching.
Although open to the public, standing Student Government committee meetings are often only announced on a clipboard on the ground floor of the Reitz Union. Students who do not pass the area and are not members of the committees themselves have no other means to find out SG meeting dates and times.
The Gainesville Police Department released data and discussed updates to its “One Community” plan during a city commission meeting Monday amid increasing gun violence.
For more than a year, Estefania Torres was paying over $500 for her utility bill — almost the cost of her monthly rent. Each month, as she helplessly looked at her bill, she was driven to tears.
About 15 volunteers spent their Saturday morning painting houses for four hours with a goal in mind: to beautify the Porters Quarters community.
While many Gainesville residents spend their Friday night wining and dining, Fontella Moore makes her way to Citizens Field on Eighth Avenue and Waldo Road.
Donated couches, kitchen tables and dressers found a new home at the corner of Sixth Street and 23rd Avenue in Gainesville.
The Gainesville City Commission appointed a new interim city manager Tuesday after the previous city manager resigned.
Low-income Gainesville residents may soon be living alongside UF students as a mixed-use development proposal is set to be built next to campus.
Zeriah Folston is focused on two values as he acclimates to his new job with the City of Gainesville: collaboration and compassion.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that the university has not yet approved a plan to build a new residential complex for athletes. A previous version of the article reported otherwise.
As of late September, more than 900 manatees have died in 2021, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The number of manatees that have died so far this year has been greater than any year since 2013.
After six weeks, Alachua County’s mask mandate expired due to a state restriction. However, masks continue to be recommended.
Students donning Gator shirts wander through a maze of closed-off streets on the University of Florida campus.
Daniel Nee is Gainesville's interim city attorney following a Monday City Commission meeting.
When former Commissioner Gail Johnson submitted her resignation five months into her second term, Cynthia Chestnut answered the call.
After an attempted murder trial, Julius Irving uses his life experiences to set goals for himself.
When Alachua County Public Schools was slapped with salary cuts due to masking politics, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona gave the superintendent a call.