Community newspaper to close down
After 59 years of covering the small towns surrounding Gainesville, the North Florida Herald is closing.
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After 59 years of covering the small towns surrounding Gainesville, the North Florida Herald is closing.
Don't tell Kelsey Tainsh there's something she can't do.
Wendy Ruiz was born and raised in Miami.
Paying off student loans is about to become less of a headache.
Florida has seen fewer crimes so far in 2011 than last year.
Gary Welles drives his '97 Gillig bus for eight hours a day from the Park-and-Ride Lot to the Hub and back again.
On Oct. 11, an explosion in a chemistry lab sent a student to the hospital with cuts on his face, hands and forearms. On Monday, Turlington Hall was evacuated after a toxic chemical was spilled in the basement. On Wednesday, fire trucks pulled up in front of Leigh Hall, a chemistry lab building, as it was evacuated because someone pulled a fire alarm.
Ariana Angel likes to line her teddy bears up in a row in the middle of her room.
At 4:45 Monday afternoon, Anastasia Ulanowicz's children's literature class was discussing "Little House on the Prairie" in Turlington Hall Room 2350.
Elementary and middle school students may have a tougher time passing Florida's favorite standardized test next year.
Last week, Patti Wyatt saved $5 at Coffee Culture through a Groupon purchase.
If you're not studying science, engineering or technology, Gov. Rick Scott may not think your degree is worth funding.
In an effort to consolidate its specialty practices and grow with the Gainesville population, UF&Shands broke ground Monday on its newest care center, UF&Shands at Springhill.
Before posting all those pictures of moments you may or may not remember from last weekend on Bourbon Street, you might want to think twice about who will see them.
The movement that has drawn thousands of protestors to Wall Street is coming to Gainesville.
Drivers going to fill up on gas or grab a late-night snack at the McDonald's on Archer Road should expect lane closures starting next week.
As tuition increases, scholarship programs slip away and the unemployment rate hovers around 9 percent, the overall rate of students defaulting on their college loans has increased at the highest rate in two decades.
For the second year in a row, Alachua County had the highest combined property tax rate in the state of Florida, and UF's presence in Gainesville has a lot to do with it.
Ponce de Leon is dead.
At the age of 48, John Kaplan was a Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist, a father of two and a journalism professor at UF. At the same age, he became a cancer patient.