The job of Chaplain Avika is to provide comfort in life’s final moments. She’s a chaplain with VITAS Healthcare, providing spiritual support for Central Floridians in hospice care.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace is building beds for families in need thanks to volunteer efforts.

The farm provides beneficial farming and gardening experiences for individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities to support them with work opportunities once they’ve left high school.

For some Central Floridians, there is a brawl between their scalp and the tap.

The recycling rate in Florida is on the decline, in part due to contamination — or the wrong items getting dumped into recycling bins. One expert said its often due to a lack of education rather than negligence.

Currently, Florida has several film schools throughout the state, however, students and graduates struggle to find jobs in the market. With less productions taking place in Florida, those seeking job opportunities have begun searching out of state.

Even though most of the members have been dancing for decades, the Orlando Cloggers are always looking for new people of all ages to take up this craft.

Fast fashion is a business model based on mass-producing clothing items at a low cost. These items are pouring into Central Florida thrift stores.

With the help of volunteers, the Coalition serves three meals each day to every resident and also feeds those in the community that have food insecurities.

Schools and communities along the I-4 corridor are defying a national and statewide uptick in teen suicide thanks to the introduction of successful mental health intervention programs and the hiring of more mental health professionals.

Lovebugs, or more specifically Plecia neartica, are the little black and orange bugs that resemble fireflies that become the scourge of drivers across Central Florida, especially along I-4, twice a year.

The Florida Department of Transportation is developing an $11.9 million wildlife overpass across a section of I-4 that’s designed to protect wildlife from the threats posed by the highway.