Ocala FL

Micanopy's downtown area was covered with red clay and given a facelift to look like an 1800s Georgia town. It's to film a TV adaptation of 'A Land Remembered'

Plans for a new Home Depot in southwest Ocala have advanced to the next stage of development review following the submission of a detailed major site plan to officials this week. A major site plan for the new Home Depot was filed with the Marion County Development Review Committee before...

MARION COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – Marion County commissioners received updates on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, on several major transportation and stormwater improvement projects underway across the county, including road widenings, new roadway connections and drainage upgrades tied to the county’s infrastructure sales tax

OCALA, Fla. – An Ocala church already recovering from a major electrical fire is now dealing with what church leaders describe as a hateful act of vandalism involving racial slurs and threatening messages. Leaders at St. Paul A.M.E. Church said someone broke into the church overnight and vandalized the...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – Ocala and Marion County residents have a new opportunity to showcase their hometown (homecounty?) pride. The Ocala/Marion County Visitors & Convention Bureau announced on Tuesday, March 19, 2026, that they’d opened a new online retail portal at shop.ocalamarion.com to sell everything from shi

I have a fairly large corner lot. Not by choice, but it came with the house. The “Powers that Be” send me letters informing me that I am using too much water, irrigating. Never a suggestion on how to save said water. They have helped solve my problem by allowing me to only water on Wednesday nights. I read in the news,

A homeowner is benefitting from a provision that The Villages cannot mandate driveway pressure washing during the drought. The home of Dewey Burton at 8205 SE 169th Palowina Loop in the Village of Calumet Grove was subject of a deed compliance hearing this week at the District Office at Brownwood.

A Jacksonville man warned away from a local Wawa in the morning was arrested for trespassing where he returned there later in the day. A deputy responded to a trespass complaint at Wawa on U.S. Hwy. 441 in Lady Lake around 12:55 p.m. Monday, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Upon ar

A Marion County jury has found an Ocala mother guilty of aggravated manslaughter in connection with the 2019 death of her 2-month-old son, who died from methamphetamine toxicity. Jurors delivered the guilty verdict against 43-year-old Melissa Waiman Schroer on Thursday, May 14, following a trial that featured expert te

A 61-year-old Villager who claimed he only has six months to live has been arrested after allegedly threatening to murder a sheriff’s deputy and his family, warning a friend to “watch the news” to see the aftermath. The disturbing incident unfolded on May 9 when a concerned...