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Two people are shot and seriously injured after a string of shootings that happened yesterday morning in Gainesville.

The Gainesville community came together Sunday for the Equality March for Unity and Pride, in part to honor the 49 victims of the Pulse Nightclub tragedy, one-year later.

Ten months after Hurricane Hermine made landfall, the city of Cedar Key is still waiting on hundreds of thousands of dollars from FEMA as the 2017 hurricane season begins.

The state of Florida tries to keep up with banning chemical formulas, but authorities say some local shops may sell the packets illegally.

The Alachua County Commission voted 4-1 Tuesday to donate the controversial Confederate statue in downtown Gainesville to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Currently, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has planned seven more naturalization ceremonies at the federal courthouse in Gainesville this year.

The City of Gainesville will discuss extending its bike sharing program at Thursday's Commission meeting. The program, launched in May 2016 when the city allocated $34,000 for the launch, began with 16 bicycles distributed over two stations. In August, the city added two more locations and six more bikes.

Gainesville officials broke ground on Monday on the new Fire Station 1, which will replace the old station built in 1962 on South Main Street.