On the night of Thursday, March 30, Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies found a 16-year-old girl with a gunshot wound lying next to the road at SE 183rd Avenue in the town of Ocklawaha.

That’s why, more than 140 years ago, some of the first mango trees in America were established in Bradenton. In the early ...

The Volusia County Council this week approved a $25.8 million project to place sand along the beach from Sapphire Road to unincorporated New Smyrna Beach.

A Florida Atlantic University study reports that the Ocklawaha restoration could deliver a 214% return on investment, yielding over $15 million a year in recreation revenue and 340 jobs.

Polk County's population — estimated last year around 850,000 — is expected to top 900,000 in the next five years and one million in the next 15, according to medium-growth modeling by the University ...

“Heartland 2060” is a regional plan for growth and development in Central Florida. Polk County led the area in population growth between 2020 and 2024, a trend experts say will continue.

Today, its last remaining wild population exists only where Bissett and Riefler found it: on a sandy slope at the edge of the Lake Marion Creek Wildlife Management Area in Polk County. Soon, it ...

Marion County, Florida has a rich lineage of famous racehorse championships. Marion County is the ‘Horse Capital of the World’ because it’s home to more horses than anywhere else in the country.

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The Marion County Master Gardeners are holding their annual Spring Plant Sale from 8 a.m. to noon, May 10, at the UF/IFAS Marion County Extension, 2232 NE Jacksonville Road, Ocala. Select from a wide ...

Since Marion County is further north than most of the Tampa Bay region, these trees will be more cold-tolerant than trees recommended for our southern neighbors.

Florida Forest Service conducts prescribed burn, reducing wildfire risk and benefitting native species by: Alexa Daly Posted: Mar 12, 2025 / 05:23 PM CDT Updated: Mar 12, 2025 / 09:10 PM CDT ...