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Alachua’s Legacy Park will be a one-stop shop on Saturday for school supplies and health testing with the Alachua Police Department’s Back 2 School giveaway event and the University of Florida Health Cancer Institute’s Community Health Day. From 9 a.m. to noon, Alachua police will give away...

The city of Gainesville opened a 30-day bidding period to buy or lease Ironwood Golf Course with proposals required to keep it public. Local coalition The Track and North Carolina's HangTime Golf have submitted distinct bids aiming to invest millions and enhance the course. The city of Gainesville opened its...

About thirty minutes into a candidate forum in Lake City last Thursday, Chase Brannan asked the room for a show of hands: who here is a fan of Alachua County? The post In Lake City, a show of hands for Alachua County appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

"It's Airbnb for parking, basically," said Knapp. "If you rent out your yard on a game day right now, you spend five hours standing in your driveway with a sign, waving cars in. That's the part we're trying to take off people's plate. If your spots are already booked before kickoff, you can be at your own tailgate, or

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Alachua County Recycles reported two fires in one day caused by batteries thrown in with household trash late last week. Officials said a loading operator at the recycling facility noticed smoke and found several lithium-ion batteries on fire, according to a post on ACR’s Facebook page.

Marc Charles Cole, 52, of Trenton, was arrested yesterday for allegedly threatening to cut a family member with a knife in a Gainesville parking lot on July 11. The post Trenton man arrested for threatening to cut family member with knife in Gainesville parking lot appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Live Oak police say a suspicious device found near the intersection of 2nd Street and Hillman Avenue has been safely secured by the Alachua County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad.

Homer Wiggins Jr., 44, of St. Cloud, Florida, was arrested after a high-speed pursuit from the city of Alachua to the northwest Gainesville Walmart and was charged with stealing a firearm and other items from a vehicle at a rural property. The post Convicted felon on pre-trial release arrested for stealing gun from ve

Kishon Marquis Jones, 32, was arrested yesterday for allegedly attacking a woman he didn't know on an RTS bus. The post Homeless man on probation arrested for attacking stranger on RTS bus appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

In March 1994, a struggling actor and screenwriter named Kevin Williamson became engrossed in a news program about a drifter who terrorized the town of Gainesville, Florida, with the murders of five college students over three days in August 1990. Spooked, he hammered out the screenplay for what became Scream,...