Eco-friendly apartment complex to likely debut in spring
By APRIL DUDASH | Oct. 29, 2007The Bartram, an environmentally friendly apartment complex expected to open next year, will be one of the first of its kind in the United States.
The Bartram, an environmentally friendly apartment complex expected to open next year, will be one of the first of its kind in the United States.
Broken windows, lost roofs and even lost houses are common scenes for Floridians during hurricane season, but UF hopes to help prevent losses by teaching people how to protect their homes.
A UF student was arrested Thursday afternoon while protesting outside the Cole Bros. Circus.
Surrounded by plastic pumpkins spewing dry-ice smoke, graduate students from UF's chemistry department educated children about science Saturday by making slime, forming "spider webs" and crushing soda cans.
Bats were recast from scary creatures to ecological superheroes Saturday at the Third Annual Florida Lubee Bat Festival.
A 13-year-old girl was hit and killed by a car in northwest Gainesville on Saturday night.
UF and Shands HealthCare officials apologized Thursday to the family of a 3-year-old patient who died at Shands at UF from an overdose of an injected chemical earlier this month.
November is Friendship Month in Alachua County, but that's not the only thing to celebrate.
By the light of the moon, ghosts from the 1870s will walk the earth again, telling stories about 19th-century life at the fourth annual Ghost Walk.
Blood donors aren't used to seeing blood smeared on LifeSouth's windows and walls.
Five federal agents confiscated hundreds of items considered to be drug paraphernalia from Modern Age Tobacco & Gift Shop on Thursday afternoon, a federal official said.
Black, pink and baby-blue poodles rode in a tiny pink car and jumped from a ladder suspended in the air Wednesday evening.
For Andrey Medeiros, the circus means more than doing daredevil motorcycle moves for a wide-eyed crowd.
Sonya Robbins picked up a 5-pound pumpkin off the table at a pumpkin stand in Gainesville, examining it in her left hand and its price tag in her right, flipping the tag over as if looking for a magic number to appear.
After two days of commission meetings, protests and deliberation, the City Commission did not reach a decision by press time Tuesday night on whether to approve the creation of Hatchet Creek Development. The meeting started at 3 p.m. Tuesday.
With pastel poodles and a "Globe of Death" in tow, Cole Bros. Circus will move its Big Top into Gainesville on Wednesday.
Gainesville Fire Rescue could soon be getting its first new fire station since 1979.
Andrea Booher owns a phone book, but she never uses it.
A proposed development near Gainesville Regional Airport continued to cause controversy Monday night at a City Commission meeting.
A patriotically painted bus transformed into a teaching vessel for voters educated passersby Monday about a political education project.