Gainesville FL

The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation conducted inspections at 174 restaurants in Alachua County during the last 30 days. While 89 establishments passed their initial visit, 85 restaurants failed to meet standards and required follow-up inspections before achieving compliance.

Sixteen months after losing her son in a motorcycle crash, a Gainesville mother is still seeking answers — and pushing for changes to Florida law. Emerson, 17, was riding his motorcycle east on East University Avenue when a vehicle driven by 41-year-old Gainesville resident Keith Grant pulled out from a stop sign and...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A deadline this week for Florida’s local leaders to remove all street art has come and gone, but in some cities the rainbows and colored roads haven’t disappeared. It’s unclear what state leaders will do in cities where elected officials have blown past their time limit.

Alachua County will consider adding Lake Shore Drive to its list of official scenic roads, with the staff review process already underway and potentially ending this month. Lake Shore Drive wraps around the western edge of Newnans Lake, and local residents say it’s a special area. You can see eagles and egrets,...

Students say the heavily traveled Norman Tunnel walkway has become the site of a back-and-forth graffiti battle. The Florida Department of Transportation recently ordered the removal of all artistic roadway decorations, including pride crosswalks. Many students believe that decision sparked the tunnel dispute, which...

The Gainesville City Commission voted 6-1 to demolish the Thelma Boltin Center after years of struggling with how to move forward with the building that dates to World War II. High construction costs to stabilize the building forced another reckoning before the City Commission, which already allocated $3 million for...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Damorie Lamontay Miles, 19, was arrested yesterday for selling marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school. He is currently on house arrest for possession of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent. A Gainesville Police Department officer reported that a search...

Trever Arnett Strawder Jr., 26, was arrested yesterday after allegedly ramming deputies' vehicles and then fleeing on foot before being apprehended by a K-9. The post Man on probation arrested after allegedly ramming ASO vehicles and then fleeing on foot appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

A Belleview man who spent nearly 150 days in the Marion County Jail in 2012 and 2015 received a break on a $14,756 incarceration lien that he accrued over the past decade, with county officials forgiving over $13,500 of the amount owed. The Marion County Board of County Commissioners approved...

A 43-year-old Ocala woman was arrested on fraud and theft charges, nearly three and a half years after she allegedly used a fraudulent check to steal over $2,000 from a local convenience store. On April 2, 2022, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy met with the owner of the Quick...