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Traffic will be detoured to move construction equipment across the I-75 northbound lane and position it on the shoulder.

Alachua County’s school-related employee of the year is a finalist in the state's recognition program.

Stefanie Samara Hamblen said the Hogtown HomeGrown’s Eat Local Challenge has always been about highlighting what’s local, natural and seasonal. This year’s event is no different.

Gainesville’s unemployment rate remained unchanged from February to March at 4.0 percent, as growth in the number of people with jobs kept pace with growth in the overall labor force.

A local 4-year-old girl battling leukemia will get the Disney princess treatment, thanks to a Gainesville Police Department officer.

Ohm it out: Beginning and experienced meditators are welcome at a free, 8:45 a.m. community meditation group at Sanctuary Yoga, 530 N. Main St.

Bill Maxwell and Beverly Coyle grew up in the same region of North Florida and both came of age in the early 1960s. But they had very different experiences, which they talked about on Thursday.

Ideas for weekend fun in Gainesville.

With concrete tilt-up walls, steel beams and roofing framing the outline of the nearly 82,000-square-foot Bass Pro Shops Sportsman’s Center under construction in the background, more than 100 invited guests celebrated the recent start of vertical construction in Celebration Pointe in a nearby tent Thursday morning.

A Penn State University architectural engineer has been named the next dean of the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning.