Alachua County

Students from The Frazer School in Gainesville will represent Florida in a robotics competition in Houston from April 29 to May 2.

Just Between Friends of Gainesville, the state’s largest children’s pop-up resale event, brought families, educators and community partners together for a multiday consignment sale in Alachua.

Alachua County leaders say family homelessness is a growing issue in the community.

The Florida Forest Service extinguished a 400-acre wildfire on State Road 26 in Alachua County Thursday.

Westwood Middle School took first place in the ninth annual Alachua County Civics Challenge this week.

One of Gainesville’s largest food events returned to Celebration Pointe for its 10th year on Thursday. The GCM Spring Food Festival, hosted by Gift Certificates and More, transformed the shopping mall into a bustling hub of food, music and family-friendly entertainment.

Families and art enthusiasts flocked to the Santa Fe College planetarium and Fine Arts Hall for an annual April weekend of activities on the northwest campus.

Ferdinand Mehrlich began his post as CEO of the Gainesville Regional Airport on April 13. He was previously the executive director of aviation at the Texarkana Regional Airport in Arkansas.

Bookstores have withstood the test of technology facing off against the likes of Amazon Kindle, audiobooks and other e-formats in the digital market.

A host of varied items fill Bond’s Vintage Vault in Micanopy. The common thread connecting them all: The women who wore, designed, and shopped for them.