FLORENCE — Every week, Florence residents drag their recycling to the curb. They fill the green bins with this morning's cereal boxes and yesterday's soda cans. They expect it to be reused.

Two owners and four decades later, the dump transformed from a hazardous state violation to the Florence Landfill, a permitted construction and demolition, or C&D, site. Owned by Paul Florence ...

In her home nestled on Southeast 23rd Lane, Conjwanna Robinson had a family and three decades of history — but the Florence Landfill was enough to make her want to pack up her life and leave.

It takes Johnell Gainey less than a minute to walk from his parents’ house to the Florence Construction and Demolition Landfill in southeast Gainesville. “We are standing exactly 168 steps ...

Anyone with information about Raquel Morales' death should contact Surprise police. The 23-year-old's body was found at a landfill in April 2025.

(WCJB) - Alachua County leaders are offering a plan for a landfill that’s been at the center of a decades-long fight.

They have to choose between equality and equity in their decision-making on the fate of the Florence landfill. Their actions illustrate how complex the implementation of these two almost ...

Southeast Gainesville residents and local environmental groups are continuing their fight to shut down the Florence Landfill, a dump which many say threatens public health and safety. The landfill ...

FLORENCE — A 500-acre marksmanship park ... are collaborating with the county to redesign the county’s former landfill on Paper Mill Road. The partnership's Chief Executive Officer Gregg ...

Hundreds of people arrived on the grounds of a battery recycling plant near Florence on a fall day 10 years ago, eager to celebrate the official opening of a business they hoped would bolster the ...