A popular eatery and convenience store embedded amid homes in Lake Eola Heights will close, its owners said in a Facebook post on Thursday.

Handy Pantry, on Amelia Street at Cathcart Avenue, has been operated by Dev Rai and his wife, Arati, for 17 years. In the Facebook post the owners cited a...

Mental health and excessive force were among the topics discussed by candidates for Orange County Sheriff in Pine Hills Thursday evening.

Orlando Police Chief John Mina, retired Florida Highway Patrol Chief Joe Lopez and Orlando businessman Darryl Sheppard answered audience questions during a town-hall...

Florida Republicans really want people to know that Anna Eskamani curses – and this time, they’re targeting her for using a word famously said by the Republican president.

One day after Eskamani, running for the state House in District 47, tweeted about a mailer funded by the Republican Party of...

Four years after a $207-million renovation of the former Citrus Bowl, Central Florida leaders recommended Friday spending another $60 million on new upgrades to the sports-entertainment venue, now known as Camping World Stadium.

“Let’s finish the job,” said Steve Hogan, CEO of Florida Citrus Sports,...

The University of Central Florida used $10 million intended for operating expenses on construction and improvements to existing buildings, on top of the $38 million that leaders admitted last week was misspent on the new Trevor Colbourn Hall.

In addition, university leaders say they used nearly...

Listing the staggering number of new retail and entertainment developments in the pipeline for the once-rural Lake Nona neighborhood could wind an auctioneer.

An inflatable waterpark. A brewery. A container park. A 60-foot-tall ropes course. A wakeboard cable park. Beach volleyball courts. A high-end...

Former University of Central Florida President John Hitt rated his chief financial officer as “outstanding” in nearly every area of his annual evaluation in February, as he had for each of the past 12 years.

“He enjoys my full trust and confidence,” Hitt wrote in February 2008, the most recent...

The Orange County Supervisor of Elections is disputing a new ACLU report that claimed the county had the highest rate of rejected vote-by-mail ballots in the entire state.

But the author of the report said he was only going by the numbers Orange County itself reported to the state– and said even...

The number of homeless school kids in Central Florida has steadily declined during the past four years — bucking the national trend — and the region also has made considerable progress in housing veterans and people with disabilities, a new report says. But to continue the progress, the region...

Topping the lengthy list of proposed constitutional amendments voters will decide on Nov. 6 is one that could mean a tax break of about $250 for some homeowners but also could leave local governments scrambling to make up for budget gaps due to the lost revenue.

Amendment 1 would add an extra $25,000...