The official opening of the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) Terminal Building at the Avon Park Municipal Airport is today, said C.B. Shirey, airport manager. ...more

May 16, 2009

The city has started running ads this week to hire an architect and engineer for the long-awaited fire station renovation. ...more

May 8, 2009

Faulty wiring sparked a three-alarm blaze at an Armenia Avenue apartment complex that displaced 21 families Sunday afternoon. ...more

April 27, 2009

Armenia Avenue apartment building burns, displacing 21 families ...more

April 26, 2009

Fire heavily damaged a Brandon house this afternoon. ...more

March 25, 2009

A woman trapped in her second-floor apartment by a Himes Avenue fire died early this morning while a man in another apartment dropped a 1-year-old from a window to her uncle on the ground to escape the flames. ...more

March 22, 2009

The city of Avon Park has big plans for its municipal airport. Next month is the grand opening of the Fixed Based Operator (FBO) Administration Building. ...more

March 3, 2009

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson toured the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse on Monday and the experience literally took his breath away. ...more

February 20, 2009

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson toured the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse on Monday and the experience literally took his breath away. ...more

February 17, 2009

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson toured the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse today and the experience literally left him aghast. The senator was responding to complaints from federal judges and employees who work in the 12-year-old building that shoddy construction has left them with leaking windows and roofs and that mold has taken hold. ...more

February 16, 2009