The International Olympic Committee announced the city will host the final stop of the Olympic Q-Series 2028, a key qualification pathway to the LA28 Olympic Games, June 8-11, 2028.
The Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida announced its plans to build a new Center for Women and Families in Orlando.
With a celebration marking the reopening of Poppy Park playground with a ribbon cutting, city leaders said the space is part of a broader plan to improve 11 parks and playgrounds over the next two years.
Federal immigration officials are scouting warehouses and beginning to purchase some of them to transform into detention and processing facilities.
If the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chooses to open an ICE detention facility in the city of Orlando, there is nothing city leaders can do to stop it. That’s according to the Orlando city attorney’s office, which issued a legal opinion to Mayor Buddy Dyer.
Travel + Leisure Co., a company that runs several vacation club lines, including Worldmark by Wyndham and Margaritaville Vacation Club, celebrated the opening of its new global headquarters in downtown Orlando on Wednesday.
Orange County Democrats are opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operating in Central Florida and potentially opening a detention facility in Orlando.
The city of Orlando wants to know what types of housing help you think are urgently needed in the city. You can take a survey to give your input.
Drone deliveries are coming to Central Florida, offering a glimpse at how technology could change the way people shop.
When completed, the approximately 15,000-square-foot center will serve as a multi-functional hub, designed to meet a wide range of community needs.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, the board voted unanimously to start discussions about transitioning away from using the Orlando Police Department and instead creating an in-house airport police department.
Officials broke ground Thursday on a new affordable housing development in West Orlando, marking the latest effort to address the region’s growing housing affordability crisis.
A judge in Orange County Monday found that probable cause existed for the arrests of three people protesting at the crosswalk outside the former Pulse nightclub Sunday night.
A rainbow-painted crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub memorial was removed overnight, following a recent directive from the Trump administration.
On Wednesday, Mayor Buddy Dyer joined city commissioners and the Christian Service Center to unveil 407 Connect, a program with two mobile homeless shelters, made from retrofitted charter-style buses.
Nearly a decade after 49 lives were taken in the Pulse nightclub shooting, the City of Orlando is expected to take two major steps toward finally building a permanent memorial at the site.
When the families of the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting finally enter the building, they won’t see any furniture. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says the walls inside are black, as is the floor, but that the space still evokes memories.
Orange County commissioners unanimously agreed to help the city of Orlando fund a permanent Pulse Memorial on Tuesday, offering to put up $5 million toward the project.
About nine years after 49 lives were lost in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, the future site of the Pulse memorial remains empty, marked only by a fence and a sign.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony marks a major milestone in the city’s $58 million Accelerate Orlando initiative — a federally funded plan aimed at expanding housing and homelessness support across the city.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer joined commissioners at We Print, a local business that has become a creative hub for young talent through the program.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is pushing back after Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody warned the city could face legal action over its immigration policy.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer insists the city is following federal and state immigration law, one day after Florida’s attorney general threatened to remove Dyer from office over a city policy.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening to remove Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer from office.
The long-awaited visitor center at the Orlando Wetlands is finally open, according to a news release from the city.
The city of Orlando is seeking $5 million from Orange County to help make the long-delayed Pulse memorial to honor the lives of 49 people killed in 2016.
One week after residents of Orlando's SoDo district expressed disappointment in a perceived lack of transparency about plans for a proposed homeless shelter in their neighborhood, the city commissioner who represents them fielded their tough questions.
After months of gathering information and feedback, the city of Orlando is gearing up to send the Pulse memorial project out for bid on March 3.
Rep. Anna Eskamani put in a budget request for $394,321 for the city of Orlando's Pulse Memorial. That's the same amount of money that was returned when the previous group dissolved last year.
Orlando arrested more than two dozen people for camping violations in January, according to an Orlando Sentinel tally of court records for the first month of a tough new law that many feared would lead to criminalizing the unsheltered.
Slipping into their finest stilettos, dozens of men and women strutted down Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando Thursday night to send a message: they will walk side by side with survivors of domestic violence.
The new initiative will give residents access to resources like power and Wi-Fi after an extreme weather event.
After winning the NWSL championship, the city of Orlando announced it will hold a parade to celebrate the Pride on Monday afternoon, according to a news release.
As Florida Classic weekend gets underway in Orlando, local authorities are enforcing Special Event Zones to bolster traffic safety near Camping World Stadium.
Downtown Orlando businesses will be able to serve alcohol after midnight again starting tonight, according to a release from city officials Thursday.
In response to a Halloween shooting that left two people dead and eight others injured, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has declared a state of emergency, implementing a temporary curfew and restrictions on alcohol sales in downtown Orlando.
Two people were killed, seven others were wounded and another person was trampled and injured in a shooting in downtown Orlando, according to police.
The city of Orlando is delaying a decision on whether to annex a piece of east Orange County property until just before the November election, when county voters could approve two charter amendments that will make annexation harder.
Downtown Orlando is about to undergo a major change if the plans Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced Tuesday come to fruition.
Mayor Buddy Dyer, along with his Veterans Advisory Council, honored U.S. military prisoners of war and those still missing as part of POW/MIA Day.
City officials, including Mayor Buddy Dyer, gathered on Thursday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dubsdread Golf Course, one of Orlando’s oldest and most historic public golf courses.
As the city of Orlando moves forward with efforts to create a permanent memorial for victims of the Pulse shooting in 2016, survivors and family members of the victims have long waited for a permanent memorial.
Podcast host Katrina Scales hits the road to learn about the eccentric World War II veteran who led the city through the opening of Disney.
On Monday, the city of Orlando moved one step closer to adding speed cameras to school zones after an initial vote of approval by the city council.
United Arts of Central Florida, along with Mayor Buddy Dyer and several community agencies, introduced downtown Orlando’s new art initiative when they unveiled the city’s latest art installation on Tuesday.
The city of Orlando is forming an advisory committee to help create the city’s permanent memorial to the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, and you can apply to be a member.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced a plan to use a noted communications expert to facilitate input from the families and survivors of the 2016 Pulse attack in the development of a permanent Pulse memorial.
Orlando city council will hold a meeting to decide when a special election will happen to fill the seat of suspended Commissioner Regina Hill, who was arrested last month.
A former participant in Orlando’s Youth Employment Program partnered with the city to provide opportunities for young people.
A grand jury is now investigating allegations that Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill exploited an elderly woman out of more than $100,000.
The Sports Business Journal unveiled its list of best U.S. sports cities, and Orlando ranks No. 1. The announcement was made Monday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort, one of more than 35 sports venues in the greater Orlando area.
The foundation created to build a memorial to honor the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting was insolvent and unable to pay its creditors before dissolving.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced he “would like to ensure” that a permanent memorial to the Pulse nightclub shooting is in place by the 10-year remembrance of the tragedy.
The News 6 morning team once again helped to kick off the holidays in Central Florida by hosting the annual tree lighting ceremony at Lake Eola.
Seven-and-a-half years after a gunman claimed the lives of 49 people inside the Pulse Nightclub, the City of Orlando pick up the work to create a permanent memorial for grieving families and the community.
Central Florida is known as a top tourist destination in the world, but if you pull back the curtains and look a little closer, you'll also find one of the worst affordable housing crises in the country.
On Tuesday, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and other city and housing leaders got a look inside the Palm Garden Apartments that are now under construction.
