Caitlin Ostroff

At Monday’s Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization for the Gainesville Urbanized Area meeting, local commissioners and the mayor considered improvements to local bike lanes and I-75.

About 75 people gathered at Cedar Key for the first annual Workout on the Waterfront, where six teams built boats out of cardboard, plastic and other natural items for the Repurpose-It-Regatta. The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Nature Coast Biological Station held the event.

Rep. Clovis Watson Jr. (D-FL) is asking the Florida Legislature for $470,000 to stop more algae from growing in Newnans Lake. The onslaught of nitrogen and phosphorus to the lake could hurt the fish population.

After receiving a tip of a retaliatory shooting planned at a Gainesville park, an officer shot at a man holding a gun, but no one was injured and the suspect was later arrested.

Florida Highway Patrol has revamped its statewide Arrive Alive campaign following an 18 percent increase in traffic fatalities over the last three years.

After being saved from a Jewish religious ritual, seven chickens were brought to an Ocala animal sanctuary to live out their days and show visitors the cruelties some animals face.