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As a result of a partnership with Duke Energy, 123 4000 Kelvin light-emitting diode streetlights now light the town’s roads. The new streetlights replaced all existing high pressure sodium amber lights that the town rented.

“I just feel like it's a win-win," the shelter manager said. "You get to help a dog in need, and you get company while you're home.”

Research has found that bats were not the cause of the recent outbreak, a Lubee Bat Conservancy employee said.

The five Asian small-clawed otters recently born at the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo are the first of their kind to be born there in almost a decade.

Gainesville Regional Airport's efforts to reduce the number of animals struck by airplanes have been effective. The number of animal strikes at GNV has been trending downward over the past five years, even as total number of flights into and out of the airport has trended upward since 2014.

After four years of Food and Drug Administration nicotine addiction studies, 26 male squirrel monkeys became the first monkeys to ever be retired by the FDA and finally found their home at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary just north of Gainesville city limits.

For Earth Day's 50th anniversary, Alachua County will participate in the City Nature Challenge, a yearly global competition.