Florida NAACP leader Torey Alston, the chair of economic development, hopes President Obama's leadership will improve home ownership and unemployment prospects for African Americans and Latinos.

Members of the Gainesville community celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a march and gospel event.

Beazer East, Inc., a wood treatment company responsible for potentially-cancerous soil contamination in a neighborhood of the Gainesville area, began soil remediation at their pilot property at 436 NW 30th Ave. on Monday.

Noise, smoke and dust invading your neighborhood may seem like an urgent problem, but when it's the routine conditions of a licensed plant, officials say it's really not a 911 emergency.

Investigation will soon be underway to determine whether Republican Clay County Superintendent Charlie Van Zant Jr. used taxpayer money to sponsor an American history conference without school board approval.

The Department of Children and Families in Chiefland will close its doors on March 31, 2014.

A House subcommittee will provide funding to the $9 billion industry to research citrus greening, a disease that affects citrus trees in Florida.

The Gainesville Police Department is one step closer to moving into its new headquarters.

Janine Plavac and Kim Cook are two of the teachers involved in a lawsuit against both the state and district school boards. The suit has filed in response to legislation that requires teachers to be evaluated from student test scores.

Alachua County has joined other state governments in declaring April "Water Conservation Month." Journalist and author Cynthia Barnett, who specializes in water issues, said although Florida is becoming more sustainable with water resources, conservation must become a collective effort to save the state's natural resources.