Lake County

Florida’s air quality did not improve in the findings of the most recent report by the American Lung Association. One reason was wildfires, which are persisting throughout the state.

A swamp fire in Lake County is under control but is expected to spew smoke for a few weeks.

The U.S. Forest Service is expected to decide soon on the request from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Repairs began Tuesday on a Mount Dora road that was washed out last year by a powerful thunderstorm.

Critics say the changes approved by lawmakers Thursday still wouldn’t protect local home rule power.

The burn ban will stay in place until drought conditions improve and the wildfire risk goes down.

The bill -- Senate Bill 694 -- was sent to the House, where a similar bill has so far made no progress.

Those four young Black men -- Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Ernest Thomas and Charles Greenlee, who was only 16 -- were wrongly prosecuted or killed for the alleged rape of a white woman in Lake County in 1949.

Dry conditions are prompting concerns about water shortages and wildfire risk in Central Florida.

The proposal would allow the Ocklawaha to breach a dam currently limiting the river’s flow of water into the St. Johns River.