A Gainesville man was charged with trying to steal multiple bicycles Monday night in an apartment complex off 34th Street.
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.
Gainesville Police are looking for an elderly man who wandered from the Veteran’s Affairs Community Center on Tuesday afternoon.
The Gainesville City Commission will discuss Thursday whether to allow alcohol to be sold in an outdoor parking lot downtown.
A homeless man known to friends as “Wine” died Saturday after he inadvertently steered his bicycle into traffic.
A police academy graduate was arrested on charges of domestic battery Sunday after he hit his girlfriend and sent her threatening text messages.
Residents recently resurrected a debate about whether Mayor Craig Lowe’s aide was hired under proper circumstances.
A Gainesville couple lost almost $12,000 worth of jewelry Sunday morning when they were robbed at gunpoint.
In the days following the Feb. 28 fire that will keep Satchel’s Pizza closed for three months, owner Satchel Raye was thinking of how to help the 50 Satchel’s employees who were left out of work.
On March 5, nonprofit organization Invisible Children Inc. posted a short film on YouTube about Joseph Kony, leader of African rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, two men stepped into a Stoneridge Apartments living room, their faces masked by bandannas, holding guns.
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.
Voter turnout in the city runoff election Tuesday was at a typical low, attracting about 14 percent of the 72,176 registered voters.
A fire at Satchel’s Pizza on Tuesday night forced the evacuation of 25 customers and could keep the restaurant closed for up to six weeks.
Students planning to leave early for Spring Break should be wary of possible traffic on Interstate 75 Wednesday night.
Club XS will close its doors for the last time Thursday, but the spot will reopen after the break under a new name.
Leap years could become a thing of the past if a new calendar proposed by Johns Hopkins University professors is adopted.
Lauren Poe was elected to the at-large 1 seat of the Commission Tuesday night with 5,713 votes — 56.64 percent of the total voters. His opponent, Nathan Skop, received 4,374 votes — 43.36 percent.
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