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Price of Plenty | Futures: Recycling phosphate waste and working to save soils

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Alachua County parents say they’re fearful of book banning implications

Alachua County Public Schools are reviewing their media school library catalogues to make sure the content abides by state and district standards in preparation for the 2023-2024 school year. Some parents say they are worried. …
Santa Fe College students help build home with Habitat for Humanity

WUFT · SFC’s 13th Habitat For Humanity home Another house is going to a family in need thanks to Santa Fe College construction management students. They recently completed their 13th Habitat for Humanity home, and on Thursday, a truck moved it to its permanent location in High Springs. The hom…
Ocala woman arrested on manslaughter charge makes first court appearance

Susan Lorincz wore a green protective vest instead of the traditional orange and white striped inmate jumpsuit to make her first appearance. She spoke from the Marion County jail with Judge Lori Cotton via video conferencing about the charges she faces for the fatal shooting of her neighbor, Ajike “…
Sheriff: White Florida woman claims Black neighbor she shot and killed threatened her first

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A white Florida woman accused of shooting and killing her Black neighbor told investigators she had been threatened by the victim in the months before the slaying, according an arrest report released Thursday. The report from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office came out a…
Alachua County 2020 voter fraud case results in 3-year prison sentence

An Alachua County man pleaded no contest to committing voter fraud during the 2020 election Thursday. Derrick Albert Robinson, 53, was sentenced to 36 months in prison after willfully voting in the 2020 election while not qualified to do so due to his status as a felony sex offender. Robinson’s publ…
Price of Plenty | Profit: Soaring fertilizer prices lead to record but unequally distributed profits

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Columbia County Sheriff’s Office hosts inaugural Citizen’s Law Enforcement Academy

Students enrolled in the Columbia County Sheriff's Office inaugural Citizen's s Law Enforcement Academy received a warm welcome on May 30, the first day of class. The nine-week course will give area residents a behind-the-scenes understanding of the sheriff's office operations. …

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Gainesville commissioners bring back single-family zoning

Mike Loizzo June 2, 2023 Heard It On WUFT-FM

The City of Gainesville has gone back to Exclusionary Zoning. The move by city commissioners, on a four to three vote, does away with the short-lived policy of allowing multi-family housing anywhere in the city. That was just put in place last October by a previous city commission. The effort to reverse course …

UF/IFAS Extension urges Floridians to make hurricane preparations now

Mike Loizzo May 30, 2023 Heard It On WUFT-FM

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a near normal Atlantic Hurricane Season this year. The expectation is for 12-17 named storms between June 1 and November 30. Of those, 1-4 are likely to be major hurricanes. Dr. Andra Johnson, dean of UF/IFAS Extension and the director of the …

Gainesville’s Evergreen Cemetery hosts Memorial Day service to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Morgan Plotka May 29, 2023 Holidays, Human Interest

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville’s Evergreen Cemetery Memorial Day service held on Monday offered a chance for community connection to veterans, active-duty servicemen and women, and their loved ones. Kim Davis, Director of Alachua County Services, is a Navy veteran and former member of the National Guard. She said this event …

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Fresh Take Florida

Florida university graduates share inspiring personal stories

May 9, 2023

Underage drinking in a college town: How strictly should police, prosecutors enforce laws?

May 8, 2023

Former death row inmates slam new Florida law making it easier to impose capital punishment

May 3, 2023

Florida’s skating rinks look for insurance relief from Legislature

May 2, 2023

‘Stop being racist:’ Tickets for loud music nearly 3 times more likely for Black drivers under new Florida law

May 2, 2023

After family murders, suicide, Florida nears passage of bill to shield kids’ autopsy details

April 26, 2023

Behind the scenes of Florida’s efforts to purge schools of books deemed improper

April 25, 2023

Hidden violence: Elder abuse was already hard to track – then a pandemic made it more difficult

April 24, 2023

Hit snooze: Bills would delay middle, high school start times

April 19, 2023

University of Florida removes years of campus crime data online

April 18, 2023

‘Radioactive roads’? Environmentalists want brakes on Florida plan to reuse toxic mining waste

April 17, 2023

New group emerges to pay UF athletes; Gator Collective dissolves after mishandled QB deal

April 11, 2023

Longform

Micanopy divided over pennant flag displays

February 3, 2023

Growing, growing, gone: Marion County residents bemoan development surge

December 28, 2022

Gainesville’s first trans minister makes a mark through social justice initiatives

December 23, 2022

After Hurricane Ian, sowing hope

December 19, 2022

A tale of two cities: How two Florida towns are handling the tiny home movement

December 14, 2022

‘It’s Wakanda’: Inside a Gainesville public charter school defying the achievement gap

August 25, 2022

Watershed: A lake named Alice

August 22, 2022

Watershed: Wellspring

August 22, 2022

Watershed: Loving Florida, losing Florida

August 22, 2022

Watershed: On a fish and a prayer

August 22, 2022

Watershed: Spillover

August 15, 2022

Watershed: Wake Up Now

August 8, 2022

Environment

Law and public safety

Florida Good

Santa Fe College students help build home with Habitat for Humanity

June 8, 2023

Families gather at Rockwood Park for ACT’s ice cream event

June 5, 2023

Fisher House of Gainesville offers respite to caretakers of sick veterans

June 5, 2023

Alachua County student competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee

May 31, 2023

UFxFAMU1963: Reporting From the U.S. Civil Rights Trail

May 22, 2023

Rev. Milford Griner has personal experience with gun violence. It’s driven him toward solutions for 54 years

May 18, 2023

The Brazilian community in Gainesville: bringing culture and investment into the area

April 24, 2023

Photos: 100-year-old house moved across Gainesville

April 24, 2023

Historic home set to move across Gainesville will provide affordable housing

April 22, 2023

Fundraiser seeks to aid farmers with limitations

April 21, 2023

Theatre of Memory offers a collection of worldwide stories in the middle of Gainesville

April 21, 2023

‘Super kind and friendly’: Meet some of the Gainesville Jeepers, rubber ducks and all

April 14, 2023

As Tax Day nears, free help is available through AARP and United Way

April 14, 2023

Alachua County strives to improve youth literacy rates

April 10, 2023

Dog training program at Lowell Correctional Institution changes inmates’ lives

April 5, 2023

What’s great about Gainesville

April 4, 2023

Arts and Entertainment

Gainesville’s Evergreen Cemetery hosts Memorial Day service to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice

May 29, 2023

Downtown art gallery hosts psychedelic exhibition

May 28, 2023

Dozens of volunteers show up to honor veterans, help prepare cemetery for Memorial Day ceremony

May 27, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks, Feb. 15, 2023, at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla.

NAACP issues travel advisory for Florida: “open hostility” toward African Americans

May 22, 2023

Rising star receives recording grant to launch musical career

May 2, 2023

Acrosstown Repertory Theatre makes a comeback

April 28, 2023

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Invisible Aftermath

A team of WUFT journalists looked into the unseen trauma of weathering a storm like last year’s Category 4 Hurricane Michael, which devastated the Florida Panhandle. WUFT spoke with survivors and researched solutions help children and families overcome the mental and emotional aftermath of a hurricane.

Peak Florida

Florida’s population growth has rebounded since the recession — now back to nearly 1,000 people a day like in the ’80s, but with weakened development regulations and accelerating climate change. Our special report examines the state’s latest growth wave, and whether we can welcome newcomers without losing what makes Florida, Florida.

Generation Gunned Down

Across America, nearly 230,000 children have experienced gun violence on their school grounds. A team of 15 journalists from WUFT News traveled to Littleton, Colorado, Parkland, Florida, Washington, D.C. and Toronto, Canada to learn about these tragedies. Everyone who has attended school from 1999 onward are part of Generation Gunned Down. Here are their stories.

Life After Maria

On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria pounded Puerto Rico, destroying nearly everything in its path and cutting off the island from the rest of the world. A team of 11 journalists from WUFT News and Noticias WUFT traveled to the island for a week to document life after Maria. What captured their attention were the stories of resilience and determination to keep moving forward.

Silenced

In this WUFT News Special Report, we explore the fight Florida felons face after they leave the prison gates with housing, employment and voting.

Grade Expectations

For kids in East Gainesville, failing third grade can be a prison sentence. It’s a cycle of poverty, so the School Board, police and other educators are trying to figure out how to stop it.

Locked Out: Florida Sentences Are For Life

In the news, we often hear about people going to prison. But, we never hear about what happens to inmates once they leave. We wanted to find out. Our team of eight journalists at WUFT News followed the lives of seven people, some just minutes after they were released. Locked Out: Florida explores how the label “felon” has followed six people long after their prison sentences ended.

The Cost of Sunshine

A public records investigation by WUFT News revealed Florida lacks accountability for fees at local and state agencies.

Energy Burden

Energy comes at a much greater cost for Gainesville’s poor, from the portion of income spent on utilities to the days without power after Hurricane Irma. A special report on why the poor pay more, and what we can do.

Florida Voices

From veterans to community leaders to average citizens making a difference, hear the stories of Floridians in their own words. These are oral histories from WUFT News.

Hurricane Irma

On the morning of September, 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall as a Category 4 storm at 9:10 a.m., at Cudjoe Key before continuing its assault up the spine of the Florida peninsula. WUFT covered the storm from before it made landfall through the recovery efforts. These are our stories.

Our Gainesville

This summer, WUFT reporters focused on a community-engagement project that celebrates and highlights the rich diversity of the people who live here. We asked them why they made Gainesville home. All of them came here for different reasons, but one thing kept them here— it's a place where we belong— all of us. The project, Our Gainesville, is comprised of individual stories of people living, working, praying, performing and more. It dives into our past and present. It tells the stories of who we are, where we are and what we are. It shows what makes Gainesville, Gainesville.

Sunshine Lost

Florida’s Public Records Act Lacks Effective Enforcement Mechanism A statewide investigation of compliance with Chapter 119 of the Florida Public Records Act has revealed that the state lacks a uniform system to enforce the public records law. WUFT News investigated compliance with the state public records law in all 20 Florida district state attorney’s offices.

A Tale of Two Gainesvilles

The construction — happening city-wide, but mostly on University Avenue and on 13th Street — comes as part of plans by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and the university to renew Gainesville.

The Low of Highs

Facing jail, a drug-addicted grandmother struggles to stop using and start over. Drifting in a small town in Marion County — a county where people are dying close to every other day from a drug overdose — Becky Clifford is desperate to survive in the face of addiction.

Earth's Storytellers

The Earth is wondrous, complicated, precious, damaged. How can we do its story justice, from the awe to the peril? Graduate students studying Nature & Adventure Journalism in the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications asked some of our most captivating environmental storytellers. WUFT News published their responses in a multi-week series of interviews and stories that celebrate science, environmental communication and the natural marvels that inspire it all.

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, WUFT-TV presents “Pearl Harbor: 75 Years Later,” a short documentary that tells the stories of veterans who survived those two infamous hours that greatly altered the course of American history.

Project: Blue Ether

A reporting and engagement project to explore the stories and science of water in North Central Florida.

This special project is funded by the Online News Association.

Bear Down

The first Florida black bear hunt in 21 years pitted staunch conservationists against hunting enthusiasts. Over one October weekend, hundreds of bears perished.

WUFT followed the story from the protestors to the taxidermy.