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When Mikayla Darrows heard her stipend package had been increased for the first time in five years, the 24-year-old UF chemistry doctorate student said there was no cause for celebration.
Rik Stevenson likes to challenge his students with questions each class: “Who is Claudette Colvin? How many slave ships remain untouched at the bottom of the ocean? Who is Bessie Coleman?”
After years of studying theater, puppeteering and coordinating renaissance fairs, David Ballard eagerly searched for a job in Gainesville.
In a press conference held Monday at the Plaza of the Americas, staff members from departments across the university announced the formation of the United Campus Workers of Florida, the first union of its kind in the state.
With more than 500,000 books, records, games, CDs, DVDs, paintings, posters, puzzles, magazines and more, there’s something for everyone at the semi-annual Friends of the Library book sale. But when the nonprofit’s current president, Jonathan van Blokland, looks back on his years working the event, he’s most enraptured by the people.
Three months ago, Brandi McElvain Fisher scoured Ticketmaster. Glancing at the screen, her eyes paused on the event she yearned to attend with bated breath.
UF Health reports four positive cases out of 517 tests for the first week of June.
Nearly half of all law enforcement agencies in the United States require officers to wear a body camera. Soon, the Alachua County Sheriff's Office will join them.
In her 14-year career at UF, only the nicest things could be said about Maria Gavidia.
Judge Stephan P. Mickle will now be known not only as a trailblazer for Black students at UF, but as the namesake for the Alachua County Courthouse.
Fifteen-year-old Ella Prine and her rabbit, Harry, waited all year for the Alachua County Youth Fair and Livestock Show. On Saturday morning, they won a blue ribbon for Best in Class, a prize awarded to the best rabbit of its breed.
The first time I pulled up to Café Risqué, I was nervous. Not about seeing the dancers or the clients or the club itself, but about the prospect of getting to know this place and telling its story.
On the cold, cloudy Friday morning, more than 50 people gathered to pay tribute to the Newberry Six — victims of a 1916 lynching — in a soil collection ceremony held beneath an old tree’s twisting branches at a grassy lot in Newberry.
“Boycott the Reitz! Protect workers’ rights!”
Nicole Harris, this year’s Alachua County Teacher of the Year, doesn’t rely on standardized testing as the main way to measure her Gainesville High School students’ learning.
U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack spent her first week in office objecting electoral results, sparking controversy and hiding from Capitol rioters.
Voices muffled by masks, microphones out of range, professors’ divided attention.
The superintendent of Alachua County Public Schools is resigning effective June 30 after a series of negative evaluations and community pressure.
Editor’s note: Some bus drivers were granted anonymity because they feared repercussions, such as losing their jobs.
A new generation of voters made it clear — the country needed change. The historic election brought about record-breaking voter turnout amid one of the most deadly and polarized points of the 21st century.
Solutions by The State News
