Cars are now the leading danger to panthers, accounting for 466 deaths since 1978, according to data from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Club members also receive their own books to keep, courtesy of funding from Friends of the Library Alachua County Library District. The nonprofit organization hosts public book sales to raise money to support local literacy efforts in Alachua County.
For decades, Alachua County’s schools have faced scrutiny over stark racial achievement gaps that have proven difficult to narrow. Despite various initiatives, community members and education experts say disparities persist — shaped by ineffective state policy, high staff turnover and historic inequities.
He was the fourth person to be executed in Florida this year, following a record-setting 2025 in which the state carried out 19 executions.
Bills can die in committees when opposing legislators refuse to act on the measures or push to not have them heard, until eventually it’s too late for the bills to pass.
An estimated 416 Iranians — including 96 international students at UF — live in Gainesville. Though the war has caused difficulties in daily life, it's also filled some with a sense of pride.
A bill, which passed its final Florida House committee Feb. 26, would require at least 95% of new full-time, first-time college students enrolled at each of Florida’s four preeminent state research schools — including UF — to be Florida residents starting in 2030, based on an average across three years. The bill’s next step is a full floor vote in the House.
The state of Florida executed 66-year-old Melvin Trotter at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday for the murder and robbery of Manatee County grocery store owner Virgie Langford in 1986, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
The newest documents give a deeper insight into Band’s relationships with Epstein and Maxwell, many of which contain flirtatious language between Band and Maxwell, though Band has denied any physical relationship.
Since Beaten Path’s city contract ended, a new compost company has entered the area — partnered with Alachua County, rather than the city of Gainesville. O-Town Compost, based in Orlando, launched its rural collection center program Jan. 3.
The program is a preventative measure to empower the community to respond to opioid overdoses before first responders arrive.
The emails featured requests for advice, favors and information on Epstein’s life experiences, in addition to the scheduling of in-person and Skype meetings.
Marsiglio, a UF sociology professor who has taught the introductory course for four decades, said the revised textbook is an “affront on academic freedom.”
Following the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis last month, Minnesota community members are making headlines for warning their neighbors about federal immigration agents through a shadow network of whistles and iPhone videos. In Florida, which saw nearly 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the first half of last year alone, activists are following suit.
Two UF classes have been exposed to measles, the university announced last week. The university is investigating potential exposures, and the Florida Department of Health has begun reaching out to individuals in the exposed classes, according to the emailed announcement.
The commission cited planned construction at the community center during the election as the reason behind the closure, though a start date for the project has not been released. The city of Alachua didn’t respond to phone calls requesting details on the project.
Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The specific details of the execution process are largely left to the discretion of the Florida Department of Corrections.
At UF, students, psychologists and researchers say they are striving to understand why people turn to AI, what it offers, where it falls short and how institutions can and should respond.
Community-made quilts honor 47 victims of racial violence in Alachua County as part of a broader remembrance effort
Douglas “Doug” Band, a member of UF’s presidential search advisory committee, is referenced in documents, transcripts and email chains related to the cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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