Gainesville FL

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Alachua County leaders hosted a climate festival to celebrate the completion of their climate action plan. The plan was developed last year to mitigate the county’s impact on the climate. County leaders hosted a festival with speakers and exhibitors, as well as food trucks.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The Trinity United Methodist Church brought the community together for a movement of faith on Sunday. Church leaders want the community to know that hope and love are truly stronger when the community sticks together. All of Alachua County came together Sunday for the Hope and...

Certain Alachua County residents will see improved internet service by 2030 thanks to a combination of federal, local and private funding toward broadband expansion. The county was allocated $12.4 million through the federal government’s Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program, or BEAD. The money will be used...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Downtown Gainesville is alive with lots of color this weekend as the annual Gainesville Art Festival takes over the streets. Artists from all over have filled the area with paintings, sculptures, and jewelry, turning the city itself into a work of art. People can browse dozens...

Alfredo Morales, a 30-year-old organizer for Free Grocery Store, went from volunteering at a food bank to receiving meals from it in 2021, when he lost his engineering job. Morales believes the threat of food insecurity looms over everyone. “Everybody is one or two paychecks away from having to need...

Melrose Forever, a grassroots organization, explains why its members oppose a permit for the Wildflowers Music Festival The post Letter: Melrose residents urge Alachua County Commission to deny permit for Wildflowers Music Festival appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Police say 39-year-old Alex Harding was arrested Thursday after he stole boxes of sports cards 20-30 times from three different Gainesville Walmart locations in the last two months. Harding is a realtor in Gainesville. Walmart Loss Prevention Officers are still gathering evidence and...

Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officers arrested Christian Gabriel Peck, 35, Thursday night on three felony charges, one for false imprisonment and two for domestic battery. The arrest report indicates the incident occurred on Tuesday, but police didn’t receive a report until two days later. According to the...

Marion County officials will issue a final vote this week on a rezoning request from a developer who wants to create dozens of larger properties on a 407-acre site in south Marion County. The Marion County Board of County Commissioners will issue a final vote on the rezoning request from...

Kentrail Rasheem Lawrence, 30, was arrested yesterday after allegedly making a false 911 call reporting an armed disturbance, which led to a priority police response from 12 Gainesville Police Department units and a K-9 team. The post Homeless man on probation arrested for false armed disturbance call with 12 GPD...