Tag Archives: Alachua County

In 2013, the Eustis, Florida, woman decided to create an "Autism Welcomed Decal" that signaled a welcoming and friendly environment. Now over 100 decals have been put up by business owners, restaurants and other public places across central Florida.

With $100 million a year Florida has budgeted for land acquisition and conservation, Alachua County could have the funding to buy 13,351 acres of land for future parks.

A plan to expand roads on Interstate 75 are expected to lead to improvements for the overpass along Southwest 20th Avenue.

Of the thousands of tons of recycling processed each year by the Alachua County Materials Recovery Facility, some of those items cannot be recycled.

Alachua County commissioners on Tuesday night voted in favor of continuing the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) method to manage stray cats in the area in order to decrease euthanizations.

The “Sunshine Protection Act," if approved by Congress, will put the state of Florida on year-round daylight saving time, but Florida farmers say for it to work, it has to be adopted by everyone, countrywide.

Xanadu homes, popular touristic attractions in the 1980s, were once called the houses of the future and now became the trinkets of the past. Gainesville's Xanadu house Foam Dome, however, became inhabited after years of abandonment after it's renovation.