How Orlando Shakes, with strength and care, overpowered online hate

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/1 10:00P Matthew J. Palm

It was well after business hours, bedtime really, when the Orlando Shakes communications director got a call from a colleague. There were disgusting comments on a Facebook advertisement for its...

Cold weather triggers fire alarm and ground stop at Orlando International Airport

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/1 9:58A Natalia Jaramillo

The Federal Aviation Authority issued a temporary ground stop on Sunday at the Orlando International Airport after a fire alarm was set off due to the cold weather, officials said. Around 3:30 p.m., Orlando International Airport Fire Rescue...

UCF evacuates students after building malfunctions from freezing temperatures

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/1 9:41A Natalia Jaramillo

Students at the University of Central Florida were evacuated on Sunday after officials said the freezing temperatures impacted the chilled water system. In a post on social media UCF Police Department said some residents of the Towers community...

Pictures: Central Florida deals with record-cold temperatures

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/1 5:05A Stephen Dowell, Joe Burbank

Jameson Thomas, 11, walks carefully through a frozen field of blueberry plants at Southern Hill Farms in Clermont on Sunday, February 1, 2026. Farmworkers worked throughout the night to irrigate...

Utility warns of outages as record cold stays in Central Florida

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/1 2:33A Roger Simmons, Natalia Jaramillo

Record cold, bitter wind chills and even some snow flurries ended January and started February for Central Florida overnight Saturday and early Sunday morning. The frigid conditions were expected to...

‘Over our ceiling’: Orange County jail flooded with ICE detainees

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/1 12:00A Ryan Gillespie

The number of ICE detainees booked into the Orange County Jail without any local criminal charges has surged more than fourfold in recent months, massively straining facility staff and creating unsafe...

Broadway’s Jasmine Forsberg will headline Winter Park Arts Weekend

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/31 10:00P Matthew J. Palm

This year s Winter Park Arts Weekend will come with Broadway sparkle, thanks to a headlining performance by Jasmine Forsberg , a Central Floridian who has performed in the musicals Six, Stephen...

Anti-ICE protest in Central Orlando draws crowd of more than 1,000

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/31 9:29A Brian Bell

More than 1,000 people gathered in Orlando on Saturday afternoon to send a message to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Get out of Central Florida. The protest started at noon on the southwest...

Orlando Sentinel 150: Tourists have long loved Orlando; Disney made it a whole new world

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/31 12:00A Dewayne Bevil

As part of the Orlando Sentinel’s 150th birthday, on the first Sunday of each month, we will report on a topic that helped shape the Central Florida of today and how we covered that topic. This month,...

In wake of tragic crash that killed 3 teens, Orange County plans to fix Apopka roads

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/31 12:00A Natalia Jaramillo

There was only a single streetlight at the intersection on Welch Road near where a pickup truck left the road and slammed into a tree in the early hours of Nov. 9. Now, just two months after the...

Orlando area attractions through the years: A tourism timeline

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/30 11:58P Dewayne Bevil

Becoming a tourism mecca was years in the making. It started with nature-driven attractions and was jump-started by Walt Disney. Along the way have been alligators, mermaids, Mickey Mouse, Elvis,...

Warm Friday arrives ahead of extremely dangerous weekend cold

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/30 12:51A Garfield Hylton

Friday s weather is warm with highs in the 70s, but there are numerous warnings ahead of the weekend. The day s weather will be sunny with winds blowing 5 to 10 mph west to southwest, according to NWS Melbourne. Looking ahead, all of Central...

Science center exhibit spells out astronaut necessities

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/29 11:06P Dewayne Bevil

So, you want to be an astronaut when you grow up? Or you wanted to be an astronaut when you grew up? “Mission: Astronaut,” the latest traveling exhibit to land at Orlando Science Center , features the...

Health inspections prompt 4 Central Florida restaurant shutdowns

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/27 11:00P Richard Tribou

The Department of Business and Professional Regulation shut down four Central Florida dining venues for health code violations during the week from Jan. 18-24. Orange Checkers at 10500 W. Colonial Dr. in Ocoee shut down on Jan. 21. Inspectors...

With new permits and alarm, Renaisssance Theatre poised to reopen

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/27 10:00P Matthew J. Palm

After four months, the Renaissance Theatre is just about ready to reopen. The Ren s building, near Loch Haven Park north of downtown, was shut down mid-September by city inspectors. But when it...