Central Elementary School was built in 1907. It is the first brick-and-mortar (elementary) school in Ocala and arguably one of the first brick-and-mortar elementary schools in the state of Florida. It ...

Marion County commissioners on Oct. 6 certified the county’s first “agricultural enclave” under a new state law, clearing the way for single-family homes on a nearly 20-acre horse farm off Southwest ...

Florida emergency management officials are bracing for life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds across the Panhandle ...

Maury Giles didn't ask the roughly 30 people gathered Oct. 7 at the Marion County Public Library Headquarters to like each other or agree with one ...

The Florida thoroughbred industry hosted a Legends Brunch & Fashion Show on Oct. 2 at The Club at Iron Lake. The speaker, former jockey Barbara Jo Rubin, was the first woman to win a pari-mutuel race ...

Operation Desert Storm veteran John Crowe was moved when he saw a 1989 M1097 Humvee at the Living History of Flight car show ...

The Southeastern Youth Fair remains one of the oldest and largest such student events in the nation. The 2027 fair, set for ...

State emergency management officials are preparing for a major hurricane potentially making landfall in the western Panhandle ...

Local law enforcement is cracking down on the sale of kratom to people under 21, having made busts at eight Ocala businesses ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 25 counties in the Panhandle on Tuesday evening, in preparation Tropical ...