Government and politics

Newberry residents who frequented the former West End Golf Club’s greens can walk its abandoned trails overgrown with towering weeds that have sprouted in the two years since the course closed.

When Laura Edwards wanted to furnish her classroom with cubbies featuring clear drawers so her students could see what’s inside, she didn’t have to worry about pulling money from her own pocket for the purchase. She also didn’t have to worry about having enough funds to ensure that each student …

Nearly 6,000 miles away, war rages on. While a sea separates the United States from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, cyberwarfare capabilities transcend physical distance. Russian-tied hackers have demonstrated their capability to cause significant financial losses and outages to other countries’ infrastructures and organizations, like with the hacking of …

Florida is one of the latest states to enact restrictive bans on abortion.

Gainesville has been scrambling for methods to tame its rampant gun violence problem since the pandemic, but unexpected administrative changes have presented challenges to proposed preventative policies. In an October 2021 city commission meeting, former Gainesville Police Chief Tony Jones unveiled the department’s One Community initiative to combat the city’s …

A leading advocate for abandoned Black cemeteries sharply criticized Florida lawmakers for killing a bill that would have helped identify, protect and restore burial grounds across the state. “I want to know, many of these legislators, where are they from?” asked Gloria Jefferson Anderson, who is leading the cemetery restoration …

WUFT · Alachua County School Board selects Shane Andrew as interim superintendent The Alachua County School Board voted 3-2 in favor of Shane Andrew as the new interim Alachua County Superintendent in Tuesday’s meeting. Chairman Robert Hyatt and board member Tina Certain nominated and voted for Andrew, who previously served …

The Walldogs call themselves a group of hundreds of highly skilled sign painters and mural artists, who for nearly 30 years have helped small towns to boost their tourism by leaving behind beautiful, handcrafted works of art depicting local history.