The Marion County Sheriff’s Office arrested two women after an employee at a local Walmart accused them of stealing over $1,000 worth of merchandise.
The City of Ocala Recreation and Parks Department’s educational series, Programs in the Parks, will wrap up this weekend with an event focusing on bears.
The Florida Department of Health in Marion County is offering several water, sun, and food-related safety tips for residents and visitors so they can enjoy a safe and healthy Memorial Day weekend.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help from the public to identify a man who reached into the passenger side window of a woman's pickup truck and stole her backpack.
Marion County motorists can expect temporary lane closures on SE 92nd Loop, three-tenths (0.3) of a mile north of SE 110th Street Road, beginning on May 26, 2023, through May 26, 2024.
Marion County Solid Waste has announced that the Lake George garbage drop-off site is closed, effective immediately, to help reduce traffic in the Juniper Springs area and along State Road 19.
The City of Ocala Recreation and Parks Department is looking for local teenagers who are interested in earning community service hours while assisting camp counselors.
The City of Ocala’s business offices will be closed on Monday, May 29 in observance of Memorial Day, and there will be no residential collection for sanitation, yard waste, or recycling routes.
The City of Ocala is looking for local food trucks to participate in the 2023 Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series, which returns to Webb Field on Friday, April 14. Â
The Marion County Children’s Alliance is currently accepting nominations for two annual awards recognizing local organizations that help the youth in Marion County.
A new Buc-ee’s travel center is coming to Ocala. On Tuesday, the Marion County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved a rezoning request from Buc-ee’s Ocala, LLC to build an 80,000 square-foot travel center on a 32.83-acre portion of Baldwin Angus Ranch.
CareerSource Citrus Levy Marion, in partnership with the Ocala Human Resources Management Association, will host "The Heart of HR: Motivate Innovate Cultivate" conference on Tuesday, March 7 at the World Equestrian Center's Expo Center 1.
A 55-year-old man is facing a felony charge for aggravated assault after he allegedly pointed a rifle at two men who were approaching a fence near his property in Marion County.
A 32-year-old semi-truck driver from Ocala was involved in an accident on Interstate 75 in Pasco County on Thursday morning after plywood that he was transporting spilled onto the roadway and struck another vehicle.
The City of Ocala Recreation and Parks Department’s educational series, Programs in the Parks, will wrap up this weekend with an event focusing on bears.
The City of Ocala Recreation and Parks Department, in partnership with the Marion County Public Library System, will host five ‘Reading with Rangers and Friends’ events in June.
"The airlines do not want to fly to Ocala. I suspect there are a couple of reasons: this area of Florida, from The Villages to the north, is not wealthy, and Ocala's economy in a nutshell is horses, distribution centers, and transient old folks in Ocala," says Marion County resident Jerry Perdue in a Letter to the Editor.
"With all the private jet flights and large horse transport flights and a few military Coast Guard flights in and out of Ocala Airport, two or three flights a week in and out of here would hardly be noticed. With the increased traffic on I-75 and the turnpike, it is more than ever increasingly dangerous to drive to Orlando, let alone Gainesville," says Ocala resident Timothy Strobert, Sr. in a Letter to the Editor.
"A large airport here would just mean more traffic from surrounding communities coming into already overcrowded roads. The noise of the bigger planes would mean we lose our peacefulness that we came here for. I say let it be a commuter flight from here to Orlando or Tampa with smaller 16 to 20 passenger planes," says Ocala resident Faye Ward in a Letter to the Editor.
Effie Mitchell was employed by Marion County School Board as a Clerk Typist at Fessenden Elementary School, later transferring to Forest High School until retiring in 2003.
