Ocala FL

ORLANDO, Fla. — It is good news for Central Florida homeowners as we wrap up 2025 — some companies are planning to lower home insurance premiums for 2026. Even Florida’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, plans to lower rates for the first time since 2015.

A proposal to build a new residential subdivision featuring more than 300 homes in Silver Springs Shores will go before the Marion County Planning and Zoning Commission later this month. During its meeting on Monday, December 29, the commission will consider a rezoning request from Midway 65, LLC to convert...

Body camera footage from a Florida sheriff's office shows the arrest of Debra Newton on Nov. 24. Newton is accused of abducting her daughter in 1983.

The amphibious aircraft crashed at 5:15 p.m. Saturday at Redwater Lake in Hawthorne.

Florida school districts are staring at a problem that sounds simple on paper but turns messy fast in real life: when thousands of students leave, the money leaves with them, yet the buildings and basic costs don’t shrink at the same speed.

A homeless man in Leesburg was arrested with a broken pipe after being chased on foot by an officer all the way to Walgreens. An officer recognized 34-year-old Jonathan Dwight Kirkland standing near his bicycle outside Sunoco, located at 737 S 14th St., at 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the...

OCALA, FL (352today) – Meet Texan, a 9-pound pup with a heart the size of Texas, who’s currently available for adoption at the Humane Society of Marion County. Texan is a 12-year-old Chihuahua mix who was surrendered to HSMC after the previous owner faced difficulties in keeping him. Although Texan is a senior, he...

Curtis and Christina Jones, left, and Britney Mann and her children, Caleb Brown, 9, Caiden Brown, 12, and Jada Kendrick, 14, right, are driven in a horse-drawn carriage to the Habitat for Humanity of Marion County house blessings, which were held next door to each other, on Northwest 14th Street in Ocala, Fla. on...

ORLANDO, Fla. – While kids around the world are busy writing letters to Santa detailing what toys they want under the Christmas Tree this year, some Central Florida kids are writing letters with a different wish. With messages like, “Dear Santa, I want to be around people who believe...

An inspector found food temperature violations during a recent inspection at a country club in The Villages. The inspector paid a visit Dec. 11 to Mallory Hill Country Club and found three high-priority violations, one intermediate violation and three basic violations, according to an arrest report from the...