An early-morning fire at a house next to Bivens Arm Lake left one person dead Thursday, according to Alachua County Fire Rescue.
A new skate park was intended to open today in Northeast Gainesville - but local skateboarders couldn't wait that long.
Gainesville residents are sharpening their pencils and their minds in preparation for the second annual North Florida Crossword Puzzle Tournament, which will take place Saturday.
The United States presidency, an office run by white men for more than 200 years, may soon be run by anyone but.
The second annual Florida ART Film Festival will showcase works by Florida filmmakers this weekend.
Though the race for Gainesville City Commission seats ended Tuesday, two candidates now have to shift into overdrive for an upcoming runoff election.
In the same city he announced his bid for the Democratic nomination for the presidency a little more than a year ago, John Edwards took himself out of the running Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after finishing third in the Florida primary.
After failing to win a single caucus or primary election, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has officially bowed out of the race to get the Repbulican nomination for the White House.
At a time when no clear front-runner has emerged in the Democratic race for president, Hillary Clinton won her party's primary in Florida on Tuesday.
Gainesville joined 98 cities and counties around the country early Tuesday when city commissioners voted to add "gender identity" to Gainesville's anti-discrimination policy.
Gainesville voters decided Tuesday that candidates Jack Donovan and Thomas Hawkins Jr. would hold seats on the City Commission for the next three years.
Eight Gainesville candidates running for three city commission seats spent Tuesday making phone calls, answering e-mails and waving signs on street corners, all with one thing in mind - a last-minute vote.
Voters approved an amendment reducing property taxes statewide Tuesday.
ST. PETERSBURG - Arizona Sen. John McCain won Florida's Republican primary Tuesday, but that didn't discourage Mitt Romney, who came in a close second place.
Doubting whether you can vote or how? Maybe we have the answers.
The lawns of homes in the Forest Ridge and Henderson Heights neighborhoods will no longer be marked by parked cars and oil stains.
The signs jutting out of lawns, the smiling portraits on Web sites, the campaign flyers in your mailbox - they don't come cheap.
The City Commission listened to more than 100 citizens comment on a policy to make discriminating based on gender identity illegal, as 98 cities and counties nationwide have already done.
Self-defense devices are not generally considered chic, but with a leopard-print surface and an MP3-playing holster, the new civilian-marketed Taser C2 aims to change that notion.
As the sun went down and the air turned cold Monday evening, Andy Coffey stood alone on the corner of University Avenue and 13th Street with a sign urging passers-by to vote Thomas Hawkins Jr. for the Gainesville City Commission.
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