Ocala FL

America is celebrating 250 years of freedom this year with lots of celebrations happening all throughout 2026!. We started the year with a reimagined ball that dropped in NYC for New Years Eve and now, we’re getting “a festival for the people:”. Peachtree Entertainment is bringing Rock The...

A car wash chain that started in Ocala in 2019 and has since expanded to 64 locations across the United States just sold one of its locations in the city for $4.75 million. The Caliber Car Wash located at 815 S Pine Avenue was sold by Gill Ocala, LLC to 815 S Pine Avenue, LLC for $4,750,000 on Wednesday, January 7,...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Ahead of the coldest temperatures in years for Central Florida, the National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for Friday morning. A freeze watch means temperatures of 32 degrees or lower are possible. Exterior pipes should be protected in Marion, Sumter and northern Lake counties...

ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s already been well over a week into the new year, and over a dozen Central Florida restaurants have already been forced to close up shop after a visit from a health inspector, according to state records. These records show that the reported eateries experienced...

An Ocala resident has started the new year with a six-figure windfall after she purchased a winning lottery ticket worth $150,000 at a local grocery store. Stephanie Lynn Mitchell claimed the top prize from the Florida Lottery’s “LOTERIA” scratch-off game on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Mitchell purchased her...

By the time Florida deputies walked up to a woman out walking her dog and told her she was under arrest, a 40-year-old missing child case was already on the brink of collapsing in on itself. The woman they were cuffing was accused of vanishing with her toddler in the early 1980s, and the adult ... Read more

I do not believe the numbers of the pool study, and it was the wrong time of the year to do the testing. You need to do the testing in the summer hotter months. That’s when the most people swim and people without pools sneak in. We are tired of paying all these amenities and nothing being done, even at the gates. A...

The boys had been digging holes at the park somewhat regularly, the sheriff's office said, and their parents only became concerned when they didn't return home for lunch.

A former resident of the Historic Side of The Villages who became homeless has been tracked down after allegedly going on a spending spree with a stolen credit card. Carianne Blanche Meuse, 38, who previously lived on Boone Court in The Villages, was found in a homeless camp in Belleview and taken into custody on...

A villager was detained after her rowdy behavior became a problem at an outdoor bar at a town square. Marrian Ann Zambrano, 71, of The Villages’ Historic Side, was “highly intoxicated, acting belligerent, using profane/foul language, and refusing to leave” the Bella Vita Italian Steakhouse at Spanish Springs Town...