Ocala would replace its $50,000 downtown commercial grant with awards of up to $150,000 for retail and restaurants, but the CRA Board still has to adopt the program before anyone can apply.
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the rotund residents of Katmai National Park and Preserve against each other for the title of most oversized ursine.
It’s harvest time in California wine country, but many growers are struggling to sell their grapes as changing drinking habits have caused demand to plunge. The decline is forcing some growers to tear out vineyards that their families have grown for generations.
If there were a list of most important New York Giants, seemingly all those key players got hurt at some point during a 28-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night, starting with quarterback Jaxson Dart injuring his left knee during his team’s first series.
Hurricane Polo grew into a Category 5 storm Tuesday in the eastern Pacific off southwestern Mexico and was forecast to bring heavy rain to southwestern Mexico but remain offshore.
Auburn fans jabbed Florida for not having played a “real” SEC game yet this season, and the Gators answered with 44-39 victory as visitors.
The DOH-Marion issues a rabies advisory after a confirmed case of rabies in wildlife in the area near Rainbow Park on September 15, 2026.
The 4th Annual Ocala Film Derby brings Marion County student filmmakers together for five days of workshops, downtown production and career connections before their original short films premiere on the big screen at the Marion Theatre, where awards and a record-setting scholarship total will be revealed.
Marion County School Board member Nancy Thrower says the board will vote Tuesday on consolidating Wyomina Park Elementary with Oakcrest, the plan delayed in August after parents packed the meeting.
World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and catastrophic Nepal flood.
