After spending 16 years in a research facility, a descendant of Triple Crown winner Secretariat was rescued by an Alachua couple and now resides on a farm for retired horses.
The products sold at Gainesville farmers markets may not all come from local family-owned farms. They could be shipped from hundreds of miles away or even from other countries.
Alachua County Commissioners met informally Tuesday afternoon and discussed what to do about the sheriff’s appeal to the state Cabinet for more funding.
Tonight, University Police will be on patrol making sure students on bicycles are able to see and be seen.
Gainesville Police are searching for a man who threatened to pull a gun on a pharmacist while demanding drugs at a CVS on Tuesday.
After losing his bid for lieutenant governor on the Alex Sink ticket, Rod Smith wants to be the head of the state’s Democratic Party.
A couple in their 60s were arrested after booze and the phrase “bring it on” sparked a fight with a machete and a metal pipe.
To the protest of state leaders, the federal government has given Florida 15 months to create a plan for cleaning its waterways.
Stuck in the tough economy, struggling restaurants in Gainesville are forced with two options: close or change to survive.
Students who are social-networking savvy may be ahead of the academic curve.
The plan to build a 100-megawatt biomass power plant in Gainesville has been recommended for approval to Gov. Charlie Crist and his Cabinet by a state administrative law judge.
The mayor said he was eager to give it a try and described the transition from paper agendas to digital as smooth.
The animal was trapped at Walmart, 2649 NW 13th St., where the employees told Mary Marion, of Lake City, nothing could be done to help the kitten.
A Gainesville man was arrested last Wednesday in connection with a robbery Nov. 5 during which police say he struck the victim several times on the face.
As they stood on the stage, all smiles and cheers, you wouldn’t know that just a year ago they were fighting to save their daughter’s life.
This icon of The Swamp is hung by the Litigators, a student-run organization within FSU’s law school that provides a home away from home for UF graduate students that attend the college.
Gainesville middle school students, some of whom have never been outside of central Florida, are making connections across the world.
Since the Shands Arts in Medicine program started Art in Motion, a program for Parkinson’s disease patients, Kathy Castle has been participating in the classes every week making mosaics, collages and other crafts.
So apparently Keith Olbermann supports Democrats. Fancy that.
UF Police Department officials are concerned about students’ ignorance of bike safety laws in a county that ranks as the second most dangerous in Florida.
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