Justin Bright
Justin is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by emailing news@wuft.org or calling 352-392-6397.
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In 2017, Hurricane Irma flooded Paynes Prairie. The high water habitat attracted new wildlife to north Florida, including the snail kite.
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As forests get paved over, the fragmented green spaces left behind provide valuable territory for local and migratory birds.
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It’s been 20 years since Antonia Rios left Oaxaca for the United States. She believed her hometown in southern Mexico offered no future to raise a family as she wanted.
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Twenty residents of the Northwood Pines and Northwood Oaks neighborhoods attended the two-hour meeting at the Senior Recreation Center to have their voices heard.
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Gainesville is the first Florida city to have a participatory defense hub. Tennessee, Alabama, California, Pennsylvania and New York are among other states with the community-driven initiative.
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On Thursday, about 200 people representing the Coalition held a demonstration at the University of Florida to demand that the university end its contract with Wendy’s.
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Riley Belcher, a 2-year-old from Belleview with a radiant smile, was selected to be an ambassador for the Down syndrome awareness nonprofit Nothing Down.
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Gainesville’s surfers and skateboarders will be without their local shop for the first time in more than two decades.
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Skaters compete in the Miami Ultraskate — an annual skateboard race in which riders skate around a 1.5-mile racetrack as many times as they can in 24 hours.