Gainesville collecting letters and planning festivities for Santa
By Carly Breitbart | Dec. 1, 2016Red-and-white mailboxes reading “North Pole Express” will be placed throughout Gainesville for the next week to collect letters for Santa Claus.
Red-and-white mailboxes reading “North Pole Express” will be placed throughout Gainesville for the next week to collect letters for Santa Claus.
An argument over an ex-girlfriend ended violently Wednesday morning as a Gainesville woman used a box cutter to slash another woman’s neck, Gainesville Police said.
On Election Night, Kristin Birdsey forced herself to go to bed early so she could still have hope. The next day at work, many of her female co-workers could not stop crying.
In an effort to promote sustainability, Santa Claus will wear a green suit Saturday.
When Willie Green strums his guitar and belts out the blues today, he’ll be going off memory.
Alachua County waters are not meeting standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency, so the county is implementing a fertilizer ban to improve them, a county official said.
With cold temperatures expected today and Friday night, Gainesville will activate its Cold Night Shelter Program.
It took Derek Cummings 30 days to create a dystopian world.
After a switch from nasal sprays to the old-fashioned needle prick, fewer Alachua County students have received flu immunizations this year, UF Health Shands Hospital announced Tuesday.
Stressed about finals? Go pet a cow.
Gainesville will get its first LongHorn Steakhouse on Monday.
A UF business professor was chosen last week to join one of Donald Trump’s transition teams.
When Emilia Echeveste first moved to Gainesville in Fall 2015, she mostly ate at Subway, Blaze Pizza and the on-campus dining halls.
Gainesville McDonald’s customers can soon order meals through a digital, self-service kiosk.
In an effort to bridge the gap between author and reader, the Alachua County Library District will host a series of author appearances beginning in January.
Professional basketball player Ron Larris returned to Gainesville from Denmark to give back to his community.
Following the start of the holiday shopping season, Gainesville nonprofits hope they are the recipients in a global day of giving.
Following Black Friday, some shoppers in Gainesville turned to their tablets, phones and laptops to find digital deals for holiday shopping.
After being pulled over for speeding early Monday morning, a Gainesville man tried to put an officer in a headlock and wound up in jail, Gainesville Police said.
Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Waldo woman Tuesday in connection to a handwritten bomb threat found in UF’s New Engineering Building last week.