Alachua County

Around 30 Gainesville residents — from concerned citizens, parents, teachers and students — gathered to express their concern over the Alachua County School Board's policy to cooperate with immigration officials on school campuses.

Alachua County Public Schools in February released guidelines that state ICE agents can interview and remove students, with or without a warrant. Dozens of teachers, parents and community members have spent the past few school board meetings voicing concerns over these policies.

Tussock moth caterpillars are native to Florida and the southeastern United States and feed on oak trees, among many others. Every year they hatch around the same time trees are getting new leaves for spring.

The Army Reserve is nearing completion on the construction of a facility on a 100-acre property near the Gainesville Regional Airport that will provide the community with economic benefits and military support.

Most of the people Bethanne Blinder fed couldn’t get to the pantry or her home, so she started using her car to deliver her meals to them.

Exactech faces more than 2,000 lawsuits alleging it sold defective knee and hip implants. The surprise action dismayed lawyers representing injured patients who have sued the company Alachua County.

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

An Ohio prison inmate already convicted of rape and kidnapping pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a Florida judge and sexually assault the judge’s wife and daughter.

Two meetings this week put the focus on the amount of time and resources Alachua County Public Schools employees are spending on book challenges.

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.

Tyrone Randy Johnson Jr. is campaigning to become Alachua County's top law enforcement official, despite questions about whether his candidacy is even lawful.

Alachua County Public Schools said Friday it was putting back into a high school's library an LGBTQ book that had been challenged under Florida law over graphic references to masturbation and sex.