More than 20 organizations have joined Gainesville's Compost on a mission to divert waste from landfills and from it create valuable soil feed.

Loften High School's Growing Education Training program is bringing job skills and healthy living to intellectually disabled students. The gardening-based program hopes to bring the students' products to local school cafeterias.

Alachua County Animal Services has exceeded maximum capacity. Despite creative efforts to find permanent homes for long-term residents, the shelter's no-kill goal for the year may not be possible.

Lester Poole has stories he may never get to tell. The 94-year-old served in the United States Coast Guard from 1939 to 1947, during which he traveled the globe and went wherever the tide took him. “South Africa. Brazil,” he said. “You name it, I’ve been there.” Though he was …

Students are now using IDs to board Alachua County school buses. The new system will help keep track of students' whereabouts as they get on and off buses.