Reacting to pleas from community leaders, Orange County commissioners approved new rules for parts of Pine Hills — including its proposed town center — that will forbid new pawn shops, payday loan centers and gun shops.

The enterprises are among business uses deemed to be “over-represented or undesirable”...

After winning approval Tuesday from Orange County commissioners, the company planning a high-speed passenger train linking Orlando with Miami expects to start laying rail in Central Florida later this year, a project executive said.

The 235-mile rail service includes a 22-mile stretch through Orange...

It's been 10 years since Caylee Anthony disappeared - leading to her mother, Casey Anthony, being arrested on and later acquitted of a first-degree murder charge. A decade after the case that sparked a firestorm in Central Florida, many still want to know - what happened to Caylee? How did she...

State Rep. Rene Plasencia is accusing a former volunteer of using his access to acquire campaign data before joining the camp of a Republican rival.

Plasencia, R-Orlando, said Tuesday he contacted the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to investigate. He said the data included information such as precinct...

What could have been a heated fight between party factions to succeed longtime Orange County Republican Chair Lew Oliver fizzled Monday night — but another election in six months will really determine the county party’s future.

Attorney Charles Hart was elected chair by acclamation at the Orange...

Students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands continue to flock to Central Florida colleges and universities, which have offered in-state tuition to people from areas affected by Hurricane Maria.

At the University of Central Florida, 448 students from the islands have applied to attend...

Though he had every reason to be bitter, Richard Kortes said he felt only sadness to hear of the death earlier this month of Tiffany Tweedy, an Ocoee woman convicted in the 2009 hit-and-run crash that killed his son, Rick.

Tweedy, 35, was found dead on Lust Road under a State Road 429 overpass...

President Donald Trump announced plans for the creation of a separate “Space Force” branch of the military on Monday, despite America’s years-long reliance on Russia to send astronauts into orbit.

“We must have American dominance in space,” Trump said at a meeting of the National Space Council....

Pointing to a state religious-freedom law, an appeals court has shielded a priest from testifying about his discussion with a teenage girl during the Catholic sacrament of confession about the girl being sexual abused.

The ruling Friday by a panel of the 5th District Court of Appeal in an Orange...

An Orange County deputy talked a man off a ledge on Interstate 4 over the weekend, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

The agency posted a photo on Twitter showing the deputy, Sgt. Jamie Hoffman, talking to the unidentified man on the overpass at Rio Grande Avenue and 33rd Street.