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1 week ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SANFORD, Fla. - Cities across the country face the same challenge: how to revitalize their malls in a modern age? Most properties like the Seminole Towne Center sit empty - retail relics taking up prime pieces of real estate. For Sanford, the answer may be plans for a new Costco location, but city officials say that's just the beginning for the old mall site.
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1 week ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma is asking for $16 million more for his budget this year, an increase he said is needed as his department deals with challenges recruiting and maintaining deputies in a competitive job market. In a letter to commissioners, Sheriff Lemma writes in part, "we operate in an increasingly competitive environment for recruiting qualified personnel.
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1 week ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Seminole County is planning to slash their budget for Lynx as they cut the number of fixed bus routes and get ready to launch their own micro-transit service this fall. But as the clock ticks before the anticipated October start, there's still a number of key questions including: what will it be called? Where exactly will it operate? And how much will it cost riders?
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2 weeks ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SANFORD, Fla. - Lakisha Debose has spent every second she can by her daughter's side the last week. Three-year-old Harmonie Rose Bryant has been surrounded by doctors and nurses at the hospital, where she's been receiving care ever since she was almost killed in a hit-and-run crash in Sanford. Debose tells News 6 she was sitting on the porch at their home on Persimmon Avenue while the 3-year-old was playing with her brother.
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2 weeks ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Seminole County's proposed $1.2 billion budget comes with possible tax hikes as it finds ways to maintain services, keep up with capital projects, and prepare the county for future financial needs.
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2 weeks ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - A multimillion-dollar drainage project that aims to fix the flooding issues that have plagued the Midway community for years is expected to finally break ground this year. Tuesday, staff told Seminole County's Board of Commissioners that the design work is almost done. They've acquired most of the easements needed and expect construction to start late this year. "We're pretty excited," said Public Works Director John Slot.
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2 weeks ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SANFORD, Fla. - Property owners in Sanford may soon have to pay a new fire assessment fee that the city could use to better fund fire services. Monday, city commissioners listened to a final presentation on how the proposed fire fee would work, before they decide if they want to move forward with public hearings and implement the fee in 2026.
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3 weeks ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - It's the rainy season, and that means more mosquitoes. On Wednesday, our News 6 team met with Seminole County's Mosquito Control Program Manager Theressa Jones. She said they started fogging to treat areas with high mosquito activity in May and she expects her department will be even busier in the next week. "I look for it to change in the next week and a half," said Jones. "We're supposed to get more rain today and tomorrow.
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4 weeks ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - One day after more than 100 undocumented immigrants were arrested in Tallahassee with the help of the Florida Highway Patrol, an email shared with News 6 appears to show some troopers in Central Florida may have been given direction not to wear their name tags during future ICE operations. News 6 spent hours calling and emailing both the FHP office in Orlando and the headquarters in Tallahassee on Friday after a source shared the email with our team.
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1 month ago | 
clickorlando.com | Catherine Silver
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Starting next week, all children will be able to get free, nutritionally-balanced meals during their summer break through a partnership between Summer BreakSpot and Seminole County Public Schools' Red Apple Dining program. Children can receive breakfast and/or lunch at locations throughout the county. The school district says no application is necessary.
