The flag-placing tradition at Evergreen Cemetery happens twice every year in anticipation of Memorial and Veterans’ Day. More than 1,000 veterans are buried across Evergreen’s 56 acres, located at Southeast 21st Avenue.
Alachua County high school seniors attended their graduation ceremonies, maskless and side-by-side, for the first time in two years.
Red, White and Blues Farm's first Peach Festival this weekend included live music, games and approximately 30 vendors.
ACPS recently arrested a student for bringing a loaded gun to a middle school and mistakenly warned of an active shooter. The district has not updated its procedures since Tuesday’s elementary school shooting in Texas.
Police are looking for a Newberry man who stabbed a woman Monday morning.
An RTS bus crashed into Cabana Beach apartment complex’s gatehouse Monday morning.
Gainesville held two events Friday to celebrate Florida’s Emancipation Day and the start of “Journey to Juneteenth.” The monthlong celebration began on the day slaves in Florida were notified of their freedom by Union General Edward McCook.
In the cocoon of East Gainesville, there is only one convenient, accessible grocery store: Walmart Supercenter. The city has no current proposals to build a grocery store on the east side — despite reserving $3.3 million for this purpose.
A week after a Fort Clarke middle schooler was arrested for bringing a loaded gun to school, families across the county received an accidental message from Alachua County Public Schools alerting them of an active shooter Thursday morning.
Gainesville City Commission’s Thursday meeting was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak among officials.
Friday kicks off the city’s second annual “Journey to Juneteenth,” a monthlong celebration honoring the end of slavery.
Feed Gainesville Babies, a Facebook group, helps moms organize swaps and find the specific formula brands they need amid the national formula shortage.
Twenty-one days after city commissioners voted 6-0 to demolish and replace the historic Thelma A. Boltin Center, Mayor Lauren Poe deemed “People Saving Places” as Gainesville’s theme for National Preservation Month 2022. Residents are confused with the conflicting decisions.
County Commissioner Mary Alford plans to resign after a May 13 Gainesville Sun investigation found her in violation of residency requirements.
A part of Planned Parenthood’s string of organized protests across the nation, the Bans Off Our Bodies march was the second Gainesville protest advocating for abortion rights this month after Politico published a leaked draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
HB395 will require U.S. government teachers to cover communism and those who suffered under it for at least 45 minutes on Nov. 7, “Victims of Communism Day.”
A Fort Clarke middle schooler was arrested after he brought a loaded gun to campus Friday. Jaylan Hillman, a Gainesville resident, stole a handgun from his mother before bringing it to school, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office press release.
Travonta Rivers was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison on child pornography charges Wednesday.
According to an Instagram story posted May 6 by Carlos Zaragoza, 22, he and his partner, Christian Acevedo, 27, went into the same stall in the men’s bathroom the evening of May 5. Security assaulted them after forcefully removing them from the stall, he said.
A motorcyclist died Wednesday afternoon after crashing into another vehicle on Northwest 39th Avenue.
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