County officials considering moving fairgrounds to Newberry
The Alachua County Commission has once again opted to postpone the decision to move county fairgrounds from its current location in east Gainesville to Newberry.
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The Alachua County Commission has once again opted to postpone the decision to move county fairgrounds from its current location in east Gainesville to Newberry.
While Hurricane Irene surged across the East Coast this weekend, students in Gainesville took advantage of sunny blue skies at Ginnie Springs.
A new campus initiative is designed to give students a shoulder to lean on this fall.
Students are wising up to hard classes, taking a hint from Darwin and sniffing out the easy ones: adaptation at its best.
With the ever-increasing cost of tuition and college students' budgets steadily shrinking, purchasing new books from the university bookstore just isn't an option for some anymore.
Peeing, driving or walking could leave you on the wrong side of the law if there's alcohol involved.
A homeless, middle-aged couple was arrested outside of the Hub on Thursday afternoon after plainclothes officers interrupted what they suspected was a bicycle theft.
UF's Student Government gave students an opportunity to meet, greet and address questions to the SG president and eight panelists at the first-ever Student Government Town Hall Forum on Wednesday night.
Letters, nails and vehicular sabotage haven't kept two UF biology professors from expressing their belief in evolution.
UF health care physicians, researchers and staff can pat themselves on the back and say, "Job well done."
For 17 years, the UF STEPUP program has assisted minority engineering students with transitioning into college, and this year was no different
Free parking downtown could become a thing of the past if a proposal from the City of Gainesville is approved by the Gainesville City Commission later this year.
Thousands of amateur athletes and Olympic hopefuls ran, shot, passed, punched, dived, rowed and kicked their way to the top as part of Florida's annual Sunshine State Games this weekend.
Motorists can expect to see law enforcement officers in Alachua County cracking down on seat belt violations as the National Highway Safety Administration kicks off its nationwide Click It or Ticket campaign this month.
They are young and old; students and recent graduates; soldiers, mothers and even doctors.
Students in Gainesville are reaping the benefits of cutting their wardrobes as a number of consignment businesses in Gainesville are offering students an opportunity to dump off their old clothes, collect some cash and shop all at the same time.
A wave of heat has washed through Gainesville this month, leaving behind a sea of sweaty students.
Gainesville Fire Rescue, the Gainesville Police Department and the University Police Department responded to an electrical fire on the fifth floor of J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center early Wednesday afternoon.
Myung Woo, an environmental engineering graduate student, was westbound on Southwest Archer Road when she lost control of her 1999 Subaru Outback, ran over a tree and flipped the vehicle. No one was injured, though Gainesville Police blocked off the left eastbound lane with a GPD police car. Woo climbed out of the passenger side door to get out of the overturned vehicle. She only received minor injuries on her left arm. Brett Smith, a GPD officer who reported to the scene, said he couldn’t see how the woman lost control of the vehicle.
As if three losses and a baffling offensive scheme weren’t enough, the Gators football team managed to bump itself off the road to the Southeastern Conference championship Saturday, losing against the South Carolina Gamecocks 36 to 14.