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Gubernatorial Republican candidate Bryan Donalds spoke to approximately 100 supporters Friday in Lakeland urging them to help get out the vote in Tuesday's primary. (Photo/Robert Pincus)

Gubernatorial Republican candidate Bryan Donalds spoke to approximately 100 supporters Friday in Lakeland urging them to help get out the vote in Tuesday's primary. (Photo/Robert Pincus)

Donalds heralds his Florida affordability plan at Lakeland stop

Robert Pincus
Monday, August 17, 2026
Gubernatorial Republican candidate Byron Donalds spoke to approximately 100 supporters Friday in Lakeland urging them to help get out the vote in Tuesday's primary. Donalds, a three-term Congressman who is endorsed by President Trump, is leading in most of the polls against Lt. Gov.
This is how I-4 Wast traffic will detour around a closure Sunday night., as well as it will get around a closure on eastbound U.S. 192 Monday night. (Graphic/FDOT)

This is how I-4 Wast traffic will detour around a closure Sunday night., as well as it will get around a closure on eastbound U.S. 192 Monday night. (Graphic/FDOT)

U.S. 192 to close overnight Monday as part of Moving I-4 Forward Program

Staff Report
Sunday, August 16, 2026
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has scheduled a closure of U.S. Highway 192 eastbound over Interstate 4 to support ongoing construction activities for the Moving I-4 Forward Program.The lanes will close overnight Monday night into Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.
Osceola Council on Aging media relations specialist Lisa Crites delved into her professional and personal background to write “Beautifully Unbroken”.

Osceola Council on Aging media relations specialist Lisa Crites delved into her professional and personal background to write “Beautifully Unbroken”.

A book about becoming ‘Unbroken’

Ken Jackson
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Council on Aging’s Lisa Crites details life of impromptu healingWhen you experience tremendous loss in life— unexpected death of a parent, divorce, a cancer diagnosis and a number of other debilitating sicknesses while trying to launch a company—the only thing you can do on a repeating basis to...
Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday released a redraft of the ballot summary of Amendment 3, the large property tax cut measure pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday released a redraft of the ballot summary of Amendment 3, the large property tax cut measure pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

State leadership rewrites property tax cut ballot summary

Gray Rohrer
Friday, August 14, 2026
News Service of Florida -- Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday released a re-draft of the ballot summary of Amendment 3, the large property tax cut measure pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
St. Cloud’s Ayomiku “Yomi” Adegbile published his second science fiction graphic novel, “Freedom Colony”.

St. Cloud’s Ayomiku “Yomi” Adegbile published his second science fiction graphic novel, “Freedom Colony”.

St. Cloud’s Adegbile publishes graphic novel inspired by local history

Ming Henry
Friday, August 14, 2026
St. Cloud’s Ayomiku “Yomi” Adegbile, a dual-enrolled undergraduate in Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), published his second science fiction graphic novel, “Freedom Colony”.
City officials said there will not be an agenda prepared but that the meeting is to hear from the Commission regarding the findings from the special prosecutor that there are grounds for impeachment against Kissimmee Mayor Jackie Espinosa.

City officials said there will not be an agenda prepared but that the meeting is to hear from the Commission regarding the findings from the special prosecutor that there are grounds for impeachment against Kissimmee Mayor Jackie Espinosa.

Meeting Tuesday to hear impeachment articles against mayor Espinosa

Ken Jackson
Friday, August 14, 2026
The Kissimmee City Commission will make Tuesday a busy one, with Election Night, its regular Commission meeting at 6 p.m., and now a scheduled meeting at 5 p.m. for commissioners to consider acceptance of Articles of Impeachment against Mayor Jackie Espinosa.
The front page of the Aug. 19, 2004 Osceola News-Gazette in the wake of Hurricane Charley (UF Archives)

The front page of the Aug. 19, 2004 Osceola News-Gazette in the wake of Hurricane Charley (UF Archives)

22 years ago today: Osceola County was gone with the wind

Staff Report
Thursday, August 13, 2026
What were you doing on Aug. 13, 2004—other than battening down, and then cleaning up, after Hurricane Charley took the express lanes through Poinciana and Kissimmee after making landfall early in the day as a Category 4 storm near Punta Gorda.
Nova Lakes High School Principal Dr. Nigel Pillay says the school, the county’s first new high school in eight years, will be a place for students to find their place and grow. (Photo/Debbie Daniel)

Nova Lakes High School Principal Dr. Nigel Pillay says the school, the county’s first new high school in eight years, will be a place for students to find their place and grow. (Photo/Debbie Daniel)

FOR WHOMTHE BELLS TOLL: Day One—literally—at new Nova Lakes High’s ‘AAA Experience’

Debbie Daniel
Thursday, August 13, 2026
When the doors of Nova Lakes High School in St. Cloud opened this week and the first school bell rang, students walked into Osceola’s ninth traditional public high school and first one built since Tohopekaliga High School opened in 2018.The 46-acre campus east of St.
Osceola High and St. Cloud sophomores Lyric Williams, Biana Maandez and Liaian Brandan (from left) show off their “Lunchbox” AI chat bot they created during the Tech Sassy Girlz “Pearls in Tech Accelerator” summer program July 30 at Valencia College. (Photo/Ken Jackson)

Osceola High and St. Cloud sophomores Lyric Williams, Biana Maandez and Liaian Brandan (from left) show off their “Lunchbox” AI chat bot they created during the Tech Sassy Girlz “Pearls in Tech Accelerator” summer program July 30 at Valencia College. (Photo/Ken Jackson)

AI was in these ‘Pearls’ grasp at tech summer camp

Ken Jackson
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Students are back in school as the fall has begun (despite what the thermometer tells you).For some students, it was a productive summer.About two dozen girls participated in the Pearls in Tech program, which stopped in at Valencia College in July.
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