Teachers and other school employees — from clerks to cafeteria workers — in the Orange County school district will get a $750 mid-year bonus, the Orange County School Board decided this week.

The “retention bonus” will be paid to nearly 24,000 employees as an effort to show that the board and Superintendent...

Jim Rieb is alive.

That’s thanks to the quick actions of Orange County firefighter/paramedic Alex Berg, whom Rieb presented with a life-saving award during Orange County Fire Rescue’s first medal-day ceremony Wednesday night at Full Sail Live.

The ceremony was a chance for the department to acknowledge...

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs’ training to lead Central Florida’s largest government began in the circus.

Jacobs, 60, whose eight-year run as mayor ends Monday, flew on a trapeze as a performer in the “Flying High Circus” at Florida State University, where she earned a bachelor of science degree...

The Jack Kazanzas Star will appear to float above Orange Avenue this year.

And it will certainly be brighter than in decades past.

After three months of extensive renovations — adding 4,500 LED lights, new acrylic pieces and updated wiring — the iconic star named for the lifelong Orlando resident...

Winter Park city commissioners gave the green light this week to designing a rooftop venue for the planned events center that is part of a $30 million-plus project that also includes a new library.

The idea of adding a rooftop venue came after voters narrowly approved a $30 million bond issue in...

A fired-up Andrew Gillum hearkened back to the Civil Rights movement and looked toward future generations in calling for every vote to be counted in Florida – and he asked supporters in Orlando to help.

“God knows, I don’t have a leg to stand on to ask you to do anything further,” Gillum told hundreds...

The Orlando Police Department is buying 800 new rifles that will replace older weapons now issued to officers, according to Click Orlando.

The new Sig Sauer rifles will replace about 500 Bushmaster rifles now in use, the TV station reported.

The new weapons represent a “huge upgrade” for the department,...

A small stack of tissues close by, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs dabbed tears from her eyes occasionally during Tuesday’s County Commission meeting, her last after an eight-year run holding the mayoral gavel.

The meeting, also the last for three other exiting board members, was filled mostly...

Muscular Pine Hills golfer Maurice Allen, who on his best day can blast a golf ball farther than almost anyone in the world, had a great one Tuesday.

He was honored by Orange County commissioners who proclaimed it “Maurice D. Allen Day.”

The decree celebrates Allen’s big personality and prodigious...

The Bay County supervisor of elections claims he accepted about 150 ballots via email or fax in this month’s election, despite no allowance for it under state law.

“You did not go through what we went through," Supervisor Mark Andersen told the Tampa Bay Times, referring to the devastation in the...