A local brewery received a governmental finger-wag from the Florida Department of Health this week for allowing dogs in their tasting room and they're taking the fight to the internet.
RockPit Brewing (Website)...
The Florida Department of Corrections has been engaged in a contract to provide inmate labor crews to the City of Orlando to assist in maintaining landscape areas for a number of years and that contract is scheduled...
According to a report by WESH 2 News, which you can see below, Orlando Police officers arrested a man named Ryan Sarjoo downtown for allegedly firing an AR-15 rifle in public in the early hours of January...
UPDATE: The Lake Alert for Lake Formosa and Lake Rowena has been lifted. Please resume all normal water activities associated with the lake.
In a bit of news...
UPDATE: Commercial properties are also affected by the restrictions and any non-residential property is permitted to water only on Tuesdays.
Every year when we change our clocks by one...
Beefy King (Facebook | Website) caught fire in the early morning hours, Tuesday, November 12.
While the cause of the fire, which was found near the back drive-thru of the building, is still...
An Orange County school resource officer was let go after a video surfaced last week showing him using excessive force on a student at Westridge Middle School.
The video shows deputy Harry Reid,...
On February 2, 2019, a TSA officer died after jumping from a tenth-floor balcony at the Orlando International Airport's Regency Hotel.
Before jumping, 40-year-old Robert Henry left a note with the following quote,
Jerome F. Buting, the defense lawyer from the Netflix series Making A Murderer will host a reading at the Orange County Library System's downtown branch on Friday, September 13 at 7 p.m.
Buting...
Bungalower's Brendan O'Connor gets a chance to sit with Jason Reynolds from Orange County's Neighborhood Services Department ahead of his talk at the upcoming Orange County Community Conference, "Simple Crime Prevention Techniques to Keep your Home and...
A petition that calls for the ban of gay conversion therapy for Orange County minors was launched this past week, backed by organizations like The Trevor Project, and Equality Florida.
Conversion therapy is...
UPDATE: This event is not free. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased via the link below.
The Orange County Community Conference will take place on Saturday, October 5 from 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m....
The City of Orlando will not continue to participate in Amazon's facial recognition software trial, as of last Thursday.
Orlando's new Chief of Police, Orlando Rolon, stated that his department was "... not...
Ashley Madison, a "married dating website," that essentially advocates for married people to cheat on their spouses, has just released a list of the top cities in the country to have an affair and Orlando topped the...
A statue of a living Tuskegee Airman, Richard Hall, Jr., was reportedly intentionally damaged over the weekend at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in Winter Park.
The Winter Park Police Department were notified...
Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon has announced a restructuring of operations to try to boost crime prevention in the City of Orlando.
A newly reworked organizational plan will take officers that are normally scheduled...
RoadSnacks (Website), a bite-size data aggregating website, has published their fifth annual breakdown of the safest and most dangerous places to live in Florida and Orlando was ranked as the 15th Most Dangerous City in the state.
According to their...
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has named 25-year Orlando Police Department veteran, Orlando Rolon, as the next Police Chief of the City of Orlando.
Rolon will serve as the 39th Police Chief, succeeding Chief John Mina, who is retiring after 28-years of...
In October 1912, Buffalo Bill's circus visited Orlando.
Bill's oldest, and subsequently largest, buffalo took it upon himself to run away from the circus and meander his way along Orange Avenue.
A group of "punchers," or cattle prodders that totally ushered the buffalo from...
Downtown Orlando has two public restrooms and they're both located at Lake Eola Park. The result of the poor access to public restrooms means when the bars let out at the end of the night, those heavy drinkers have...
The Mayor has called for more police patrols to help ease the minds of Orlando residents who raised concerns at a recent City Commission meeting about the new business opening in their neighborhood in Washington Shores. Click HERE to see...
Orange County residents who have a suspended or revoked drivers license are often faced with an insurmountable, or at least more difficult, hurdle when applying for jobs or trying to access health care. This can lead to, or exacerbate,...
A video, recorded by Orlando resident Hogan Birney, is making the rounds on social media of a local UPS truck driving on a bike path alongside Bumby Avenue in Audubon Park.
This isn't an isolated case, as anyone in the...
Short-term rentals were approved by City Commission earlier in the year and the new city ordinance came into effect on July 1.
Under the new home-sharing ordinance, residents are now allowed to host guests in a portion of their residence,...
We often get photographs and tips from our Bungalower readers of things that are happening around town, so we have started featuring them on the site in a series called Eyes on the Street, in honor of our favorite urbanist Jane...
