The competition for the District 1 city commissioner seat is heating up with a Santa Fe College student throwing his hat in the ring.
While Oregon and Ohio State prepared to battle on the field, local businesses braced for the rush of customers who came for the kickoff of the National Championship game.
David Nassau found a Florida State University student ally in an unexpected place: Twitter.
Gainesville Police arrested a man Sunday who officers say had seven bags of methamphetamines and falsely identified himself to police.
A new tea spot recently opened in Gainesville, and business is brewing.
The top-ranked Florida men’s and women’s track and field teams enter their two-week competitive hiatus with plenty of positive momentum following their performance at the UAB Blazer Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama.
The UF men’s tennis team is still young and so are its players.
If anyone thought vinyl records were a thing of the past, 2014 proved otherwise.
While the Gators (9-6, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) may be struggling with overall consistency, there is one constant between this year’s team and last: the hype around Chris Walker.
After completing just their first meet of the year, the No. 3 Gators are already facing a season’s worth of adversity.
Over Winter Break, two UF students and their family members opened a new restaurant in Midtown.
When I arrived at women’s basketball media day in October, coach Amanda Butler was energetic and enthused about the upcoming season. Despite losing team leader Jaterra Bonds, Butler was eager to tell anyone who would listen that UF would be able to adapt and adjust.
January at UF means gyms packed full of students carrying out New Year’s resolutions meant to start the semester off on a healthy note.
The nature-walk mantra “take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints” has not only ecological implications but political and legal ones as well.
Many of us may have been disappointed by the results of last fall’s gubernatorial election, but few could complain about the passage of Amendment 1 by an overwhelming 74 percent of voters.
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had an awesome holiday season. It’s great to be back and great to be writing again, although 2015 somehow already feels stressful. The first week of classes was a blur of expensive textbooks and schedule shuffling, but an event this past weekend helped to start my new year off with a bang: the 2015 Golden Globes.
It’s the week leading up to President Barack Obama’s next-to-last State of the Union Address, so he’ll be revealing his policies for the coming year. It also means there will be a lot of rather sassy reactions to his stated plans, so get ready for a week full of some salty political news. See, for example, the president’s announcement this weekend of the plan to make community college tuition free, and the gleeful takedowns that followed.
By now, you’ve probably heard of the devastating terror attacks that shocked and horrified the nation of France. The terror began last Wednesday when masked gunmen murdered 12 people at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a publication known for deliberately mocking various religions and politicians. Two days later, the violence continued as the attackers killed a French policewoman then held 16 hostages in a kosher supermarket, killing four.
Jeremy Mincey’s efforts were not enough.
An hour before Florida’s Southeastern Conference opener, Florida announced two of the most surprising suspensions of Billy Donovan’s 19-year tenure.
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