On a whim in 2013, Pat Lavery decided to host six food trucks at once in the High Dive parking lot. Fifteen minutes later, the lot was full of customers, and Gainesville had its first official food truck rally.
Forty percent of homeless youth in America are members of the LGBTQ+ community, as reported by the True Colors Fund, an organization that seeks to aid the homeless LGBTQ+ community in any way it can. Although this is a national organization, some Gainesville locals feel the need to speak out about this issue and help raise money for those in need. Hardback Cafe, located at 211 W. University Ave., will be hosting a benefit to support this fund and its cause Friday.
Grammy-nominated artists Big Sean and Lil Yachty will perform Feb. 15 in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center for Black History Month.
Mike White tossed his blue suit jacket to the floor and walked to the center of his team’s huddle before his players had fully assembled. Outsized by all but two of them, the second-year Florida basketball coach wasn’t intimidated.
Alex McMurtry knew her junior season was going to be different than her first two years in Gainesville.
The 2016-17 NBA season has been top-heavy. Elite teams have created large disparities between themselves and their mediocre conference counterparts.
A Newberry city commissioner is under fire after he shared a meme on his personal Facebook page mocking the women’s marches that took place across the country Saturday.
After members of the Jewish Student Union spent nearly four hours Tuesday promoting Jewish Heritage Month, a man wearing a swastika armband rode his bicycle nearby, prompting outrage from students and members of the Jewish community.
For the first time in almost two months, Elif Portakal laced up her sneakers, pulled on her uniform and stepped onto a court to play in a women’s college basketball game.
The Gators dropped two conference games back-to-back last week. And sluggish, flaccid second-half starts were the problem.
One phone call to UF Health Shands Hospital on Tuesday resulted in an evacuation of the food court, University Police said.
The North Central Florida YMCA needs to raise about $350,000 in the next seven days to keep its doors open.
A UF maintenance worker was operating a lawn mower when it fell and pinned him to the ground Tuesday.
A bill placing an amendment on the Spring ballot caused contention in Student Senate on Tuesday.
At Tuesday’s Career Showcase, some UF students and employers used their smartphones to navigate their way through the newly constructed O’Connell Center.
With one hand in a cast bound with orange and blue tape, Heather White used a mallet to pound a hole into the wall of the Career Resource Center.
After a fire destroyed Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises, Stephen “Satchel” Raye is starting to re-build.
When the UF football team lost to the University of Tennessee in September, Alan Levine swallowed his pride.
A Gainesville woman was arrested Monday in connection to a Christmas Day shooting targeting her ex-boyfriend.
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