The Hippodrome opens this Friday with award-winning play "Other Desert Cities."

WUFT discusses consumer confidence with the director of UF's Survey and Research Center

The presidential search committee in charge of finding the next UF president hosted a public forum to help gage public opinion on the search and what qualities are important in selecting a president.

NASA has been undergoing quite a few changes recently. In the past few weeks, the agency awarded the Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX and Boeing contracts to develop a craft to take astronauts into orbit in the next five years. This could mark a new era where private companies start taxi …

One year after the organization saved 700 cats from Haven Acres and prosecuted the abusers, Alachua County Animal Services was awarded with the 2012 Humane Law Enforcement Awards. HSUS Florida State Director Kate MacFall says it was all due to the admirable way the situation was handled. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/macfall1.mp3] The rescue project …

Tropical storm Isaac is in the Atlantic near the Island of Guadalupe.  It could head to Tampa Bay by Monday… as a hurricane.  Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami, says Isaac may not be a tropical storm for long… [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/Hurricanectrdir1.mp3] Feltgen says it’s still too early …

A public meeting is being held tonight by Ocala ranch Adena Springs to discuss its water use application. The meeting comes a few weeks after Adena Springs held a similar meeting that was invitation only. Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute Director Robert Knight will be present at tonight’s meeting …

A panel of lawmakers has approved Governor Rick Scott’s request to restore nearly $30 million in budget cuts for Florida’s court clerks. Without the budget adjustment, the clerks would have faced layoffs, branch office closures, and cut office hours. We spoke with Alachua County Clerk of the Circuit Court Buddy …

Ball Corporation is closing its Gainesville plant by the end of this year and leaving 125 employees without work. The metal beverage packaging plant says the demand for standard 12-ounce cans has gone down, and Ball Corporation Spokesman Scott McCarty says that’s the only kind of cans the Gainesville plant is equipped …

One race from the Tuesday ballot may take a few days to resolve.  Longtime Congressman Cliff Stearns is going to have to depend on provisional and overseas ballots if he wants to continue his career in congress. Running in the newly formed third congressional district, he trails Tea Party favorite …