The Latest Breaking News from Central Florida

An upcoming special election for a House seat in Central Florida could be a major test for whether state Democrats can bounce back from the drubbing they took last year.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis and a revamped Central Florida special district sought Monday to scuttle a federal lawsuit in which Disney contends its constitutional rights have been violated amid a long-running feud with DeSantis.

Walt Disney World will begin selling annual passes to new customers Thursday. Sales of most of the levels of its passes have been suspended for months, a mid-pandemic move designed to help manage crowds in WDW’s four Central Florida theme parks.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Disney’s agreements seeking to preserve its power over development in Central Florida didn’t follow requirements in state law, rendering them null and void, lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis tourism oversight board said Wednesday.

ORLANDO, Fla. — It was 36 hours after the Pulse nightclub massacre of 2016 when Rick Todd decided the history of gay, lesbian and transgender people in Central Florida needed to be told. Sitting in a meeting of LGBTQ leaders reacting to the tragedy, he realized the help that would…

It was a quiet morning as dawn was breaking over the horizon, sunlight just barely peeking through the clouds when I pulled up to one of my favorite sights: an empty trailhead.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the span of a little over a month, Central Florida has been left reeling by a spate of several gruesome gun deaths, many of them young children.

ORLANDO, Fla. — With less than 2 inches of rain this year, Orlando is enduring its second driest stretch from Jan. 1 to April 5 since the late 1800s and also its hottest on record for that period.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked board overseeing Disney World’s government services is gearing up for a potential legal battle over a 30-year development agreement they say effectively renders them powerless to manage the entertainment giant’s future growth in Central Florida.

The Walt Disney Company will host a major conference promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the workplace in Central Florida this September, gathering executives and professionals from the world’s largest companies in a defiant display of the limits of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign against diversity training.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pat Schroeder, a Colorado congresswoman, presidential candidate and longtime Central Florida resident, died Monday. She was 82.