Gainesville

The City of Gainesville plans to make renovations to the downtown Streatery, a stretch of Southwest 1st Avenue that has been closed off to traffic since September 2020.

Delight Ministries, a women’s ministry group that has been on the University of Florida campus since 2015, hosted an event to feed the homeless on Saturday.

The Midtown parking lot has been a popular food truck area since 2022. But a proposed housing development threatens to displace the remaining two vendors.

The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is training beekeepers over the next couple of days as part of its annual Spring Bee College Program.

A new program aimed at making downtown Gainesville a safe and welcoming place for residents and visitors has been ongoing for nearly four months. The Gainesville Downtown Ambassador Program provides hospitality, safety and outreach in the Downtown Gainesville Service Area and the West University Corridor Service Area.

A nonprofit refugee outreach organization in Gainesville that helps families settle in the area will stop that aspect of its work as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash funding for refugee resettlement.

A circuit judge sentenced the man who shot fire from a flamethrower at neighborhood teens over a parking dispute in 2021 to a year in jail Friday morning.

Alachua County turned 200 this year, and the Matheson History Museum is honoring that milestone with a new exhibition that looks back on the people, places, and progress that shaped the county’s history.

Gainesville Regional Utilities is conducting an inventory of its water service lines to ensure none are made of lead following recent rule changes by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A candlelight vigil for University of Florida sophomore Nyla Holland was held outside the Southwest Recreation Center Monday night. Holland died from injuries received after a vehicle hit the scooter she was driving near the intersection of Hull Road and Museum Drive Sunday night.