The Alachua County Commission has not reached a conclusion about whether to give preference to local businesses when it considers a bid for construction or other county projects.
Yvonne Hinson-Rawls, 64, is one of three candidates for the District 1 seat of the Gainesville City Commission.
Ray Washington, 56, is one of three people running for the District 1 seat on the Gainesville City Commission.
About 2,000 people attended the annual King Celebration Commemorative March.
Here is how the UPD's crime log breaks down for the first week of the semester.
Members of the Student Senate's election codes revisions committee refined their proposed changes at meeting Sunday afternoon.
Gainesville Fire Rescue responded to a grease fire in unit No. 75 of Williamsburg Apartments at 2000 SW 16th St. late Friday afternoon.
Police are looking for a backpack and cellphone that a Santa Fe College student lost when she was kidnapped Thursday evening.
A man and a woman were taken into custody Thursday in relation to a drug-related robbery where a man was pistol whipped.
Gainesville police are still searching for a man accused of robbing two women in a neighborhood near sorority row early Friday.
An armed robbery occurred around midnight Friday north of Sorority Row in a residential neighborhood at Southwest Ninth Street and Southwest Sixth Avenue.
Communion wine may not be the only alcohol near downtown churches if a city ordinance gets altered.
"When's Tim Tebow going to be made a saint?"
A mentally challenged Gainesville man jumped out of a moving car near his home around the area of 2400 SE Hawthorne Rd, Gainesville Police said. He is currently missing.
A chemical reactant explosion at Sisler Hall injured a student and shut down traffic around 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, and authorities said the building will be closed all day today for cleanup.
An off-duty security guard at the UF Housing Office was arrested early Tuesday for preventing a Gainesville police officer from helping a drunken woman outside 101 Downtown, according to a police report.
After about 30 years of city resident health concerns, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan to test dust contamination levels in houses near the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site.
City and county government are looking to make the future of Gainesville's traffic situation greener.
Gainesville Sun employees no longer have to worry about a controversial clause in their new employment contracts.
Listen up, Gainesville: You're about to receive the low-down on local restaurants.
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