Marion County

The Dunnellon City Council rejected a motion to seek an injunction against CSX over February's rail tie fire. But the city attorney says there may still be other legal pathways.

Though there are no orange groves left in Citra after multiple freezes, members of the improvement society enjoy using the Orange-A-Fair to reflect on memories of when there were.

For the first time in the 157-year history of Marion County Public Schools, three educators in the same school were recognized for three separate honors: Principal of the Year, Rookie Teacher of the Year and Teacher of the Year.

Back in the 1940s, one man’s love for swimming and underwater filmmaking helped share their beauty with the rest of the country. His name was Newton Perry, known as the Father of Florida’s Springs, and his hometown of Ocala is honoring that legacy in a special way.

The Ocala City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to rezone about 30 acres along West Silver Springs Boulevard from a previously approved mixed-use housing development to light industrial use, after the developer said apartment market saturation had stalled the original plan.

The Dunnellon City Council is considering legal action against businesses connected to February's rail tie fire.

One month after a massive rail tie fire sent thick, potentially hazardous smoke over Dunnellon and nearby Chatmire, residents are still demanding answers about how a disaster many warned about became reality.

In his 79 years of life, Georgia-born Newton Perry, was an underwater cinematographer, the swim coach at Ocala High School, founded Weeki Wachee Springs and opened Perry’s Swim School.

The Dunnellon City Council met Monday to discuss cleanup plans after a railroad tie fire Feb. 1 exposed residents to toxic smoke and ash.

Marion County firefighters fought throughout the day Sunday to extinguish a blaze of thousands of wooden railroad ties left by the side of the tracks near Dunnellon.