After a key legal defeat, a statewide bear hunt is scheduled to start this weekend. Florida issued 172 permits to hunt bears this year, including 17 in the Central Florida area, which includes parts ...

A $200,000 donation aimed at paying off lunch debt of nearly 5,000 Seminole County Public School students highlighted the tremendous scale of the problem in the process. Tracy Duda Chapman, chief ...

Bring the kids to see Santa, available daily through Dec. 24, at the Oviedo Mall, 1700 Oviedo Mall Blvd. There are a variety of packages to purchase that include digital and print photos, which cost ...

The Winter Springs City Commission will hold a special meeting next week to discuss a list of stormwater projects in the city – the first step toward another possible rate increase. In May, Winter ...

OCN sits down with Superintendent Serita Beamon to see how the system plans to handle a tax rate that has been declining for ...

Audience members say one of the Seminole County School Board candidates was too ‘aggressive,’ as the moderator steps in to ...

I caught four catfish in my front yard during Ian, and I didn’t even have a fishing pole," a resident said after flooding ...

Oviedo is set to kick off a nine-month-long construction project to keep drivers from having to play a game of chicken on one ...

The Oviedo City Council established a new tentative tax rate of 5.6692 mills during its meeting on Monday that would drop ...

“Oviedo Community News has prioritized creating an independent, nonpartisan voter guide since we launched in 2021 because before our newsroom existed, information on local candidates was hard to find, ...

With the November elections less than four months away, the City of Oviedo continues to prepare for the possibility of losing millions of dollars in property tax revenue. The Florida Legislature ...