City of Alachua

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, music stores nationwide have closed amid an increase in online retailers. But Leon Barrows has kept Music Junction in Alachua open through strategic decisions.

It was Christmas Eve when the 18-year-old finally was coming home from Cuba. He and his father had been imprisoned there for the past 20 months along with about 1,200 other men.

Dawn Beachy, 70, a Gainesville native, spearheaded the project in hopes of educating people about the history of racial terror in Alachua County.

The Gainesville Senior Games, a series of athletic competitions for participants age 50 and up, start Friday and end Oct. 6. This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the games, which will feature swimming, pickleball, pétanque, table tennis and other sports.

Cave divers in North Central Florida say the proposed 500-home Tara Forest West development could contaminate the Floridan Aquifer with its stormwater runoff.

The famed ghost dog who frequented Alachua’s Heritage Oaks along U.S. Highway 441 has finally found a home. We sat down with the woman who saved her.

“This is a big step in that direction of using multiple types of power sources to support our city for the future,” said Vice Mayor Dayne Miller. The amended contract aims to ensure the project’s success by providing the commencement of installation in November and amending the contract to an increased price as energy rates rise.

The Alachua County Commission held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new fire station in the city of Alachua.

Co-founder Mary Gregory turned 91 in December, but she still goes out on her golf cart four times a day to tend to the horses.