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Gainesville officials are conducting a prescribed burn at Morningside Nature Center today.

Among the paradoxes are the apparent need for life to exist in water, but molecules such as RNA also deemed essential for life, break down in water.

Micanopy Middle School has had its struggles.

A serious traffic crash involving a motorcycle affected traffic at Southwest Archer Road and 13th Street Thursday morning.

AARP Tax-Aide volunteers at library branches, Artisans' Guild Gallery, Civic Media Center hosts a night of music, and more.

Hours before he was surrounded in a parking lot by police officers, weapons drawn, 16-year-old Robert Dentmond was jovial – laughing, joking and eating dinner with his sister and her friend.

A Tuesday night meeting that was intended to calm community concern over the shooting of teenager Robert Dentmond did not go as hoped, and Wednesday, leaders were calling for another meeting to let everyone who wants to speak have time at the microphone.

The shooting death of 16-year-old Robert Dentmond Sunday night has left many in the community with questions.

Marihelen Wheeler, a veteran local school teacher who has previously run for the Legislature and Congress, is running as a Democrat for Florida House District 21.

The Florida Highway Patrol is monitoring U.S. 441 and CR 234 in southern Alachua County for smoke due to a 20-acre prescribed burn at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park.