For the first time in about eight years, Bread of the Mighty Food Bank does not have enough food to distribute to all of the nonprofit organizations that need it.
Gainesville Police Department officers charged two women Tuesday morning with stealing nearly ,10,000 worth of jewelry at The Oaks Mall from CJ Jewelers.
With trick-or-treaters on the streets and parties all over town, Halloween could mean extra work for police.
The Gainesville City Commission voted to approve the long-debated Hatchet Creek Development in East Gainesville late Monday night.
Cars crowded the entranceway of the Morningside Nature Center on Saturday evening, forcing some to wait in the turning lane on State Road 26.
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.
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