High volumes of interest in the 2008 presidential election brought out excitement in voters on the first day of early voting Monday.
Gainesville Police arrested a teenager Sunday in connection with a car chase that ended when the car hit a tree, a Gainesville Police report stated.
It could pay to ride a bicycle to work.
Eleven Gainesville Police officers reported to the Wal-Mart on Archer Road on Friday after they received a false report from a pay phone of a gun-wielding man in the sporting-goods section, a GPD report stated.
A downed live wire that ignited the top of a telephone pole caused heavy traffic and left residents around Southwest 20th Avenue without power Monday, Gainesville Regional Utilities officials said.
With early voting starting today, we here at the Alligator thought it would be a good idea for you to take a look at your local candidates.
Nothing brews a sense of camaraderie like the largest, most diverse sampling of beer in town.
The Friends of the Library book sale opened Saturday to record-breaking numbers.
As part of the "Early Vote for Change" tour, Michelle Obama will be stopping in Gainesville on Wednesday afternoon to rally voters to go to the polls.
The cloudy, colorless sky was no match for the rainbows that flooded Saturday's Pride Festival.
While UF students dealt with a virtual line for UF-Georgia game tickets this week, locals have been queuing up to hit the books this weekend.
A woman with two previous warrants out for reckless driving was arrested Wednesday night after a northeast Gainesville car chase that reached 100 mph.
Gainesville City Commissioner Jeanna Mastrodicasa had on a bracelet at Thursday's commission meeting in honor of a proclamation of Gainesville's support for the national ONE campaign to eliminate AIDS and global poverty.
The number of possible locations for Gainesville's one-stop homeless center have officially decreased to two.
Some Florida doctors would like Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's cancer history kept in the closet.
The applause of about 700 Republicans echoed as Lt. Col. Oliver North voiced his admiration for presidential candidate Sen. John McCain at an Alachua County Republican Party fundraiser in Newberry on Thursday night.
October is usually accompanied by several color palettes: reds, browns and golds for the changing leaves or black and orange for Halloween.
An ongoing Associated Press investigation showing that about 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals and contaminated packaging enter the nation's water supply each year has prompted Gainesville Regional Utilities to test for the chemicals in local drinking water.
Alternative energy systems in Europe have inspired Gainesville Regional Utilities to propose a completely different approach to renewable energy.
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