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A hole in the ground opened in a crosswalk at West University Avenue and 13th Street during rush hour Wednesday afternoon, blocking one lane of traffic.

There’s a weather-crisis preparation session at T. B. McPherson Center at 5:30 p.m. featuring meteorologist Stefanie Lauber, and everyone’s welcome to learn how best to stay safe in a storm. 1717 SE 15th St.

The Small Business Administration and the North Central Florida SCORE chapter will present a seminar on entrepreneurship aimed mostly at "encore entrepreneurs" who are 50 or over.

The Alachua County Environmental Protection Department has three grants to help support local springs protection and water conservation efforts.

Alachua County Public Schools’ Food and Nutrition Department will serve free breakfast and lunch to children 18 years old and younger during summer vacation through the Summer Meals Program.

A nearly $10 million expansion and renovation project at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida retirement community’s Health Pavilion is now complete.

A 67-year-old Illinois man was killed and three people were seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 in Columbia County Tuesday afternoon.

Alachua County Public Schools has hired 78 teachers for the 2016-2017 school year, assistant superintendent of human resources Paul White said Tuesday at a school board workshop.

More than 200 people, many of them traveling from rural farm towns, showed up to a state Department of Transportation information session Tuesday evening to voice opposition to proposals for highway expansion throughout north central Florida.

County Manager Lee Niblock delivered his tentative budget to the Alachua County Commission Tuesday evening.