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The phrase “Gator Boys Stay Hot” is widely associated with Gators basketball, but the phrase has rung true across several Florida sports since early April — especially the Gators baseball team.
ICE is on Santa Fe College’s doorstep. While the agency has yet to knock on its door, faculty and students are wondering what a potential agreement with immigration enforcement means for their safety.
The Gainesville City Commission voted to hold a special election over the GRU referendum, install new red light cameras and discussed Citizens Field at a meeting Thursday.
One month after defeating the Houston Cougars in the national championship, Florida basketball head coach Todd Golden earned a significant pay raise.
A crowd of protesters gathered outside Rawlings Hall late afternoon on May 8, chanting slogans like, “UF admin hear us now, save our routes or we shut it down.”
Leaving an entire life behind, assimilating to a foreign education system and watching parents sacrifice life savings are all things students on F-1 visas knowingly sign up for. The reward? Freedom of speech, superior academics and — for many — political stability.
Rolling into Turlington Plaza at noon on her pink LaScoota kick scooter, Kendall Johnson looked like any other student on their way to class April 16. It was only when she started unpacking hundreds of ducks onto one of the concrete tables that passersby realized who she was: the Duck Lady.
What a difference four years can make.
I have dedicated five semesters to the Alligator, yet I don’t know how to put into words what it meant to me.
Two people died and six were hospitalized after a shooting at Florida State University’s student union on April 17.
A scorching July in 2022 led me to Gainesville and, to an overdue epiphany, The Alligator.
I didn’t plan on saying goodbye to The Alligator. Not because I planned on working in our office of dust bunnies and back-breaking chairs forever, but because I didn’t think I earned it.
My time at UF wasn’t defined by football games, classes or partying at Midtown. It was defined by my time at The Alligator. After my first Sunday meeting at this paper two years ago, I called my mom in tears. I told her I was surrounded by the future of journalism, and I wasn’t meant to be part of it.
The crowd of over 2,000 was dressed in garnet and gold — bouquets of flowers and balloons decorated fences. And as the marching band’s song echoed through the fields, tears ran down the faces of Florida State University’s community.
Two people died, and six were hospitalized after a shooting at Florida State University’s student union Thursday.
The UF Data Center seemed unexceptional, ordinary in every sense of the word — at least from the outside. Clad in red brick, it was wedged into the interior of a near-empty parking lot where Erik Deumens, UF Information Technology Research Computing senior director, stood patiently.
For a tour described as the “easiest yes” by each one of its musicians, The Wooly made for a venue filled with passionate fans and fluid movement on Sunday.
The Florida Gators men’s basketball team defeated Houston in the 2025 National Championship Monday night, and fans waited excitedly in Flavet Field for their triumphant return to Gainesville.
Florida took home its first national championship in 18 years after a neck-and-neck game between the Houston Cougars on Monday night. The Alamodome supported a boxing ring, much by Houston’s invention, and with a national championship hanging in the balance, top-seeded Florida and Houston traded haymakers.
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.
Solutions by The State News
