Local food in a city is typically a bundle of carrots at the downtown farmers market, basil from a balcony herb garden or eggs from a co-worker’s farm.
Canadians blazed their way to No. 1 in a list of countries ranked by marijuana usage among 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds, reports a UNICEF study.
Size matters, at least when it comes to soda. Restriction of larger drinks could possibly reverse the intended effects of decreasing soda consumption.
Gainesville Police is looking for a man who allegedly stole various items from two UF students and sexually assaulted one of the students at gunpoint early Monday.
Explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday killed three people and injured about 150 — but local participants were not among them.
A recent ranking placed Gainesville among the top 10 small college cities, coming in at No. 4 behind Ann Arbor, Madison and Boulder.
The U.S. Postal Service’s latest plan to regain financial stability by cutting Saturday deliveries has been blocked by Congress.
Voting for the Gainesville mayoral runoff election is today. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Revenge porn may soon become illegal if a Florida bill makes its way through the House of Representatives.
The Gainesville mayoral runoff election between former District 2 City Commissioner Ed Braddy and incumbent Mayor Craig Lowe is Tuesday. The Alligator interviewed both candidates about issues affecting UF and Santa Fe College students.
Researchers in Germany have recently reported finding traces of arsenic in samples of beer, saying that some levels found were more than twice what is allowed in drinking water.
Wayne Wheeler stood inside his mostly empty trailer in Westgate Mobile Manor Park.
A new strain of the norovirus stomach bug may have buzzed its way to Gainesville.
Mark-Jason White often spends about six hours a week calculating 101 Downtown’s liquor inventory.
CourseSmart, a company owned by five publishers including Pearson and McGraw-Hill, is testing technology that allows professors to monitor when students read their digital textbooks, how often they read them and for how long.
Gov. Rick Scott signed a law Wednesday that bans Internet cafes across the state, but local officials say the impacts on Gainesville are uncertain.
Radical Press Coffee Collective will host its grand opening from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight.
A local nonprofit asks residents to help clean up Gainesville’s best-known creek this weekend.
If you are a Gainesville resident looking to pop some tags with only twenty dollars in your pocket, then you will find no shortage of thrift store options available to you.
Another name has been added to the list of senators who signed a petition asking the Supreme Court to declare the law that prohibits gay marriage unconstitutional.
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