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Interstate 4 Colonial Drive exit to be close, replaced by left-side temporary exit.
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An Orlando police officer who is suing the department for gender and disability discrimination could be fired today, as her application for disability retirement awaits a decision. In a Wednesday memo to Officer Elizabeth Waba-Daniels, Deputy Chief Eric Smith said she surpassed the amount of time an officer is allowed to work limited duties under OPD policy and her pension application has been pending longer than the agency’s contract with its union allows.
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Bakari Burns, elected to the Orlando City Council Tuesday night, picked up an additional boost just 24 hours later from two of the leading Democrats in the primary for president, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
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A pride of peacocks has flown the coop from an Orange County neighborhood, and some local residents blame bird bandits, according to a report by Spectrum News 13.
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KAVAS Tacos + Tequila is coming to Pointe Orlando next year.
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A massive 40,093 square foot two-story Winter Park home could soon be under construction that would be among the biggest private residences in Central Florida.
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Orange County commissioners are considering proposed new rules for using public boat ramps including requiring anyone who uses a county-owned boat ramp for commercial purposes to pay for liability insurance and pony up an annual use fee of $3,000. Some airboat operators object to the new rules.
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Bakari Burns overcame a steep fundraising disadvantage and secured a seat on the Orlando City Council in a runoff election Tuesday.In the two-way race, Burns pulled in 68% of the vote, swamping Siplin, a former state senator who was seeking a return to elected office. Burns spent $55,000 on the race, about $100,000 less than Siplin, who raised close to $200,000.
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In a new study, WalletHub ranked Orlando as one of the least-safe cities out of the 182 cities surveyed in America.
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An 18-year-old is facing an attempted manslaughter charge, accused of shooting and seriously injuring a boy last month at an apartment complex basketball gym in south Orlando, an arrest affidavit shows.
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Sapporo Ramen is set to stop serving its Japanese noodle soup by the end of the month.
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Amidst a national hepatitis A outbreak, which hasn't spared Florida, UCF medical students are collaborating with the local health department to give free shots to the homeless population in downtown Orlando. They estimate that they've helped vaccinate about 10% of the homeless population in Orange County.
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UCF is investigating a controversial professor who was banned from a professional organization after he was accused of harassing panelists during a conference last month in Baltimore.
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A vacant seat on the Orlando City Council will be decided Tuesday.Voters in District 6, spanning southwest Orlando neighborhoods like Washington Shores and Holden Heights out to key commercial districts like International Drive, the Mall at Millenia and Universal Orlando Resort will hit the polls deciding between Bakari Burns and Gary Siplin.
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Under his leadership, Orlando Fire Department’s newest chief Benjamin Barksdale said he envisions a more inclusive culture at the agency, and wants to grow the use of technology in decision making while making strides to keep OFD employees healthy “both mentally and physically.”
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UCF will open campus to hundreds of electric scooters for rent.
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After more than 20 years of having to call it an early night, some restaurants in Winter Park’s Hannibal Square district will be able to keep the alcohol flowing until 2 a.m.
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Orlando Health Heart Institute has acquired Florida Vascular Consultants, an independent practice in the Maitland since 1986. The practice’s two physicians, Dr. G. Kendrix Adcock and Dr. Robert Winter, will be a part of Orlando Health’s Vascular Surgery Group, starting January. They will practice in Maitland, Lake Mary and South Seminole Hospital.
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The Gallery at Mills Park apartments' pump station has spilled raw sewage several times onto the adjoining neighborhood street, across Orlando’s Urban Trail – where visitors with dogs and strollers trek through the mess – and into Lake Formosa.
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The collision happened near the intersection of East Semoran Boulevard and South Thompson Road.
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A man was shot in the hand Sunday at the Washington Shores shopping center, according to the Orlando Police Department.
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A tall timepiece has been ticking away in downtown Orlando since 1903. How did the street clock get here, survive more than a century and end up outside the Sentinel building?
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Shoppers sought deals across Central Florida on Black Friday, visiting Altamonte Mall, Walmart stores and other retailers.
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I'm a Disney server, a union representative and I live near Universal, and I think the company should build its own road.
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Salvation Army kettle campaign gets tech boost in time for Giving Tuesday scramble
Coins in a red kettle? So boomer. Salvation Army add Google, Apple Pay
Coins in a red kettle? So boomer. In time for Giving Tuesday, The Salvation Army and other charities ramp up with tech and heartstrings-pulling social media campaigns.
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It all started with an employee noticing that a urologist in Orlando was performing too many kidney stone procedures. Now Dr. Patrick Hunter and the outpatient surgery center where he performed the procedures, Orlando Center for Outpatient Surgery, are subjects of a lawsuit by the Justice Department.
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Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has hired Andrea Wesser-Brawner, 37, as the county's first innovation & emerging technology officer.
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UCF has suspended sorority Pi Beta Phi after receiving an anonymous complaint of hazing, including members forcing others to use drugs and drink alcohol until they blacked out.
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The wife of a Florida man is suing Orlando Health and two of its pathologists for an autopsy, alleging that it was so badly botched that the family wasn’t able to have an “adequate funeral” for him.
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Winter Park will put an end to termites' Thanksgiving Day feast this weekend by covering City Hall with a large blue tarp and begin fumigating the two-story building.
