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1 week ago | 
wusf.org | Joe Byrnes |Molly Duerig |Lillian Hernández Caraballo
More than 15 'No Kings' events were taking place Saturday throughout Central Florida. Central Florida Public Media is covering the day of protests in communities across the region.
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2 weeks ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
In the impoverished area of Bithlo, about 15 minutes from the Orange/Brevard County line, Ashley Reese was in the midst of something she’s become all too familiar with: gathering her belongings from one campsite and relocating to a new one. The 31-year-old lifelong Bithlo resident grew up between homes and has spent most of her adult life experiencing poverty and homelessness. “My family basically disowned me. I don’t know what I’d do if it weren’t for my husband,” she said.
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2 weeks ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
In a special election Tuesday, Brevard County voters chose two Republican candidates to fill vacant seats in the Florida Legislature. Longtime Florida Republican lawmaker Debbie Mayfield will now serve as Florida District 19’s Senator. She takes the seat after Randy Fine, who resigned the position to run for Florida’s 6th Congressional District – a seat he won in April. Mayfield defeated Democrat Vance Ahrens with 54% of the vote.
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2 weeks ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s latest quarterly report shows a rate increase, following record-low rate filings and even a decrease last year. The 2025 first quarter report revealed property insurance base rates ticked up slightly by 0.3%, meaning that of the 10 most recent reports, nine show rate hikes, making it about a 40% increase for Central Florida policyholders since 2022.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytonatimes.com | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
A group of nearly two dozen Volusia County households filed a lawsuit Wednesday against multiple real estate developers and managers, claiming that stormwater drainage mismanagement led to frequent and severe flooding in their neighborhoods. The civil action lists 23 addresses and 36 homeowners, all in the Miller Lake area of Orange City, who retained the legal services of Morgan & Morgan’s Business Trial Group.
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3 weeks ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
A group of nearly two dozen Volusia County households filed a lawsuit Wednesday against multiple real estate developers and managers, claiming that stormwater drainage mismanagement led to frequent and severe flooding in their neighborhoods. The civil action lists 23 addresses and 36 homeowners, all in the Miller Lake area of Orange City, who retained the legal services of Morgan & Morgan’s Business Trial Group.
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1 month ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
As Republican state lawmakers hash out a budget that would help with reducing — maybe eventually eliminating — property taxes, progressive-leaning leaders in Central Florida raised concerns Tuesday on how the loss of this major revenue source could impact residents and local governments.
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1 month ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
The Seminole County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to replace most of its LYNX fixed bus routes with a new rideshare program.. Freebee, a Miami Beach-based microtransit company, was one of three vendors competing for the contract. The company’s proposal to the county included 35 “sustainable” transit vehicles for $4.8 million a year, with a $100,000 initial setup fee.
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1 month ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
The Volusia County Council approved a plan to improve stormwater infrastructure and reduce flood risks, using $133.5 million of federal funds for Hurricane Milton recovery, some of which has been earmarked for home buyouts. The sum was allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through its Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery program.
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1 month ago | 
cfpublic.org | Lillian Hernández Caraballo
Mya Colón regularly uses the bus for her commute to work. She’s been doing so, she said, since high school. The 26-year-old sets her alarm to go off at 4 a.m., three and a half hours before her shift at a prosthetics and orthotics clinic in South Orlando. It’s about a 25-mile journey that starts with a mile-plus-walk in the dark, from her Poinciana home in Osceola County to the nearest LYNX stop.
