Ocoee News

Birket Engineering Inc. , a safety and control systems contractor, will move its headquarters from Ocoee to downtown Winter Garden next year and add 40 new high-paying jobs within two years.

The State Attorney's Office has filed formal charges against a former Ocoee police officer accused of spanking a woman.

Vladimir Curiel opened Tamboras Grill Cafe in Ocoee last December when the economy wasn't as bad as it is now.

A search is under way for a driver who hit and killed a man and then left him on a dark portion of a busy Central Florida road.

Police are looking for clues to help solve a hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian dead in Ocoee on Tuesday.

As west Orange County grows, so does its residents' need for health care. That's why the area's two hospitals are busy trying to meet that demand with new programs, services and more space.

Starting Wednesday, Osceola Regional Medical Center will require visitors to show photo identification before entering the hospital, as part of a revamped security system.

The Ocoee City Commission took action last week to establish its first Charter School Committee to study whether the city should form a special charter school or its own charter school system.

A citizens committee's final recommendations for Manatee County schools new superintendent include the district's financial director, two top officials from other Florida districts and a former superintendent ...

For the pseudo McMansion people with no curtains on Palmer Avenue: What - did you leverage yourself so much you had nothing left to buy curtains? We drive by; you're in boxers - that's gross.

A new neighborhood park in Ocoee will not only benefit city residents, it will provide a vital environmental benefit to Lake Apopka, which is struggling back to health after decades of pollution.

Valuable lifesaving equipment that could restart a student's heart has been stored in a Sarasota County School District warehouse since June while officials decide how to use it.

The city of Ocoee already has a draft of a proposal to eliminate its dispatchers and turn the duty over to the city of Apopka.

The city will celebrate the opening of Palm Park, 529 Palm Drive, today at 10:30 a.m. The 6-acre park across from the Pioneer Key II community has a 2,000-foot walking path and two pedestrian bridges, but its ...

Daniel Tuttle, a Pine Hills mailman from Ocoee, gave me call ahead of today's planning and zoning meeting at the county.

Although much of the work going on at Starke Lake in Ocoee has been road rebuilding and drainage system construction, residents will soon see major improvements to the Bill Breeze Park lining the shore.

Dear Greg: In November of last year, I received three new phones from Sprint with new phone numbers.

Dear Greg: I moved in late July from Fruitland Park to Lynn Haven in the Panhandle.

So far. If things continue to run smoothly, the move from Pine Hills to closer to Ocoee could be approved in October.

The city of Ocoee has been operating its residential garbage collection service in the red for three years.