New biomass power plant producing energy, will be near full capacity within months
By Alex Harris | Aug. 27, 2013The new Gainesville Renewable Energy Center, a wood-burning biomass power plant, began producing power last week.
The new Gainesville Renewable Energy Center, a wood-burning biomass power plant, began producing power last week.
The “magazine salesman” scammers are back in town, and Gainesville Police is urging residents to be vigilant to avoid potential theft.
As attorneys continued their analysis of evidence in the Pedro Bravo case, state prosecutors said Tuesday they expect to receive forensic analysis results on two pieces of evidence collected during last year’s Christian Aguilar murder investigation.
Rusty Poulette, a worker and co-owner of Radical Press Coffee Collective, started growing his beard about 11 years ago in high school. He cited cost effectiveness as a reason for not shaving.
The legal difficulties between Gainesville Regional Utilities and Gainesville Renewable Energy Center over the new biomass plant have come to a close.
While the UF football team prepares to suit up for its first home game against Toledo on Saturday, businesses near the Swamp have been getting ready for the big day as well.
The fire station that has sat on a downtown lot for the past 52 years is officially moving.
Almost 20 months since its opening, the Florida Innovation Hub has been making strides in fostering businesses and organizations from small startup projects.
Additional regulations for gameday parking in neighborhoods near UF, discussed last week in a City Commission meeting, could also impact parking at the Union Street Farmers Market.
While other schools in Bradford County were swinging their doors open to welcome students last week, Starke Elementary School was shutting its closed.
Forget that green means go. Now, flashing yellow left-turn arrows are giving drivers the option to go at traffic lights across the country.
Gainesville Police arrested a man Sunday after he threw a fan at his teenage son for not looking enough like him.
Study Edge just passed its makeup exam.
The Second Street diner that served burgers and fries for 82 years is going green.
During the 1960s, Judith C. Russell, dean of the university libraries at UF, saw racism firsthand when her sister’s nurse was not allowed to attend a movie theater due to the color of her skin.
The word “stressed” is commonly used among college students, but UF researchers have zoomed in on the stressors of younger students.
When a group of about 60 people hiked into Loblolly Woods on Sunday morning, they marched to experience the natural beauty of a piece of public property and to oppose a City Commission proposal.
In an effort to speed up transportation and promote rider safety, Gainesville’s Regional Transit System is looking into adding more bus bays — separate bus stop zones on the side of a main roadway.
A Gainesville man was arrested Thursday morning after Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies found child pornography on his computer.
HAWTHORNE — Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a local woman Saturday night accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death.