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The site of a former U.S. Army Reserve Center in northeast Gainesville is set for a renovation after sitting unused for most of the last nine years.

In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.

Residents met this week to try and figure it out, as changes are coming to Duval Park and the Clarence R. Kelly Community Center.

If signed, how would this legislative initiative affect Gainesville families and businesses, as well as the soda industry?

A United States Department of Agriculture-funded project called "Fresh Wagon" provides fresh produce to Gainesville residents at a low cost.

Finding a place to park has become increasingly difficult on 38th Street to the light at 43rd Street. Gainesville city commissioners are trying to solve the issue, while some local businesses disagree with the solution they offer.

Virginia Bruzzese, known as Nurse "Ginny" in Gainesville, is using her decades of nursing experience to help the medically underserved via the UF Mobile Outreach Clinic.

County-Purchased YMCA Land May Benefit Micanopy Residents With Facilities Similar to Privately Held UF Lake Wauburg Park.

St. Augustine's Tourism & Development Council is planning an education campaign asking tourists to donate money to charities, rather than the homeless, as concerns escalate over how a growing and visible homeless population could impact visitors and local businesses.

An Alachua city commissioner is publicly chronicling his fight against parotid cancer on his Facebook page

Several tomatoes, a selection of onions, add some green peppers, plus $950 and a van — that is the recipe Jack Maas and Dean Wiesjahn used to start their dream of a micro-local produce company, Rainbow Produce. Now, after 30 years of growth, their business supports a cycle of other …

Linda Stoler reinvented her music program for senior citizens, offering pro-bono workshops that involved the same speech pathology concepts she had used while working with school children.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate and environmentalist known for her unfaltering defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and regain land for development.

The Alachua County Commission voted unanimously to temporarily withdraw its request for a special use permit to build a fire station on Millhopper Road that had raised concerns among local residents.

Habitat for Humanity has teamed up with Resolute Forest Products and Southern Structures, Inc. to build homes for 10 families in Key West.

Gainesville restaurants like The Swamp and Hurricane BTW are stepping up and donating to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Fund.

Twenty-eight participating IHOP restaurants are giving out free pancakes in exchange for donations to UF Health Shand's Hospital. UF Health coordinator Clare Scheller said the donations will go toward new equipment and resources for sick children.

A Florida Senate bill would raise the penalty for each stolen hive from $5,000 to $10,000. In some parts of the state, beekeepers had more than $100,000 worth of hives stolen.

In 2015, rural Dixie County, Florida ranked among the highest in the state for opioid-related deaths. Now, less than one year after Gov. Rick Scott declared opioid addiction a statewide emergency in May, opioid deaths in the county have declined—but prevention efforts in children and teens persist.