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The 32nd annual Fall Downtown Festival and Art Show drew artists to Gainesville from around Florida and beyond.

Gainesville Regional Utilities General Manager Bob Hunzinger announced his resignation in a letter signed by him and Mayor Ed Braddy on Wednesday.

Keystone Heights is holding a "Scarecrow Strut" contest: businesses, schools and nonprofits can build scarecrows to compete and be judged in various categories.

Gainesville is making an effort to be more environmentally friendly by purchasing solar-powered trash compactors and recycling units.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of Florida sponsored a commemorative event Wednesday night to honor the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.

Gainesville youth commemorated this week's 50th anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963, but many on Saturday said more civil rights progress needs to be made.

Only three Florida counties remain dry for liquor sales, including Lafayette County, which struggles to retain business. Suwannee County went wet in 2011, though some of its towns did not follow.

Rain didn’t stop more than 100 protesters from showing up at Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville to march against the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict.

Less than a decade ago, the 400 block of South Main Street was not a destination for art. Today, it’s a thriving community of locally owned art spaces, the Civic Media Center and the Citizens Co-Op.

Tropical Storm Andrea made landfall in Florida late Thursday afternoon in the Big Bend region. WUFT provided updates throughout Thursday and Friday to this liveblog.