School Board decides to put issue on ballot in fall of 2014

Orange County voters will be asked next year to extend a half-penny sales tax to continue renovating older schools and building new ones.

Lake County School Board members on Monday discussed changing school start times and cutting courtesy busing to fill a $16.3 million budget shortfall for next fiscal year.

Terry Hershner made what he calls first coast-to-coast run on electric bike, and he's on road again

Less than two weeks after completing what he called the first coast-to-coast run on an electric motorcycle, clean-energy advocate Terry Hershner left Orlando Monday on a more ambitious gasoline-free journey: a 15,000-mile ride throughout the U.S.

Ordinance would allow up to three hens in coops, but no noisy roosters

Fans of fresh eggs in Orange County have something to cluck about: Backyard hens may soon be allowed beyond Orlando city limits.

Zane Paul, 16, had never learned to ride a bicycle. His father died of cancer when Zane was 4, and he was too scared to try riding after that.