Alachua County ranked fifth out of Florida’s 67 counties for recycling in 2024, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (FDEP) ...

Alachua County’s fire chief has been recognized as one of Florida’s best. Chief Harold Theus was named the Career Fire Chief ...

Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR) Chief Harold Theus was recently named 2025 Career Fire Chief of the Year by the Florida ...

Which Alachua County restaurants were temporarily closed by inspectors? These restaurants failed their May 26-June 1 inspections and were temporarily closed. Follow-upinspections are required.

According to the proclamation, the county's name, “Alachua,” means “big jug” in Timucuan, which is a reference to the region's sinkhole geography.

Alachua County sits squarely in north-central Florida, with several hours of interstate buffering residents from coastlines and the nearest big cities, Orlando and Jacksonville.

Jen Grice, the county's director of emergency management, said rainfall is likely to begin Wednesday night with 4 to 6 inches expected through Friday.

An Alachua County community's downtown area has been recognized alongside those of historic St. Augustine and the wealth of ...

In its meeting Tuesday, the Alachua County Commission approved the terms of an agreement consolidating two branches of CareerSource Florida.

The Alachua County Historical Commission found 46 lynchings occurred here between 1867 and 1926, the most of any county in Florida.

Alachua County on Friday celebrated Florida Arbor Day, a day designated to encourage the community to plant trees.