After shelling out $179,000, the Alachua County Commission is one step closer to deciding whether to add more staff and services to the county’s jail.
The Gainesville City Commission will discuss Thursday whether to allow alcohol to be sold in an outdoor parking lot downtown.
Susan Fairforest stood in front of the Gainesville City Commission dressed in a floor-length black dress.
Tensions ran high Thursday night as a commissioner questioned a fellow commissioner’s decision to start his own website about the city’s biomass contract.
The Gainesville Public Safety Committee decided Wednesday to ask the City Commission to let downtown food trucks and other vendors stay open until 3 a.m. and to let businesses sell alcohol on a parking lot there.
The Town Crier will be live tweeting the Gainesville City Commission runoff elections tonight. Follow us at @gvilletowncrier for by-the-minute coverage of the election results.
After about three months of searching for a replacement for former Commissioner Rodney Long, who resigned in December, the Alachua County Commission no longer has an empty seat.
The Alachua County Commission wants Ginnie Springs and other county springs to keep strongly flowing.
Gainesville residents can start casting early ballots today for the Gainesville City Commission at-large 1 runoff election.
A leading council on environmental design recognized the first green county fire rescue station in Florida.
The Gainesville City Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to amend an ordinance that forbids places of religious assembly and bars to be within 300 feet of each another.
A grassroots organization will finally see the fruits of its labor in the form of a renovated community center.
The Alachua County Commission decided Tuesday to consider the costs of using other energy providers after learning that Gainesville Regional Utility's biomass contract will increase the county's utility bill.
The Alachua County Commission decided Tuesday to consider changing part of the funding process for county nonprofit organizations.
The Alachua County Commission sat around a conference table Tuesday morning and started talking about how to make the all-important budget cuts.
The plan to resurface the road along Northwest 22nd Street and Northwest Fifth Avenue will go before the Gainesville City Commission on March 1.
The African American Accountability Alliance endorsed Lauren Poe in the Gainesville City Commission runoff race after a forum Monday.
Most of the former at-large 1 candidates for the Gainesville City Commission race have decided to support runoff candidate Nathan Skop in the runoff race.
One year ago, the Gainesville City Commission ruled that 64-year-old Gainesville resident Bruce Baber couldn't run his dog-sitting business from his home because it was against city codes.
Student voter turnout on campus remained low in Tuesday's elections.
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