Paul Giorgio
Community Correspondent

Paul is a Florida native who graduated from the University of Central Florida. As a multimedia journalist, Paul enjoys profiling the people and places that make Central Florida unique.

Paul is a Florida native who graduated from the University of Central Florida. As a multimedia journalist, Paul enjoys profiling the people and places that make Central Florida unique.

Months after Crystal Ballroom Ocean Walk in Daytona Beach was evicted and closed, couples who paid for the venue are still waiting for refunds, with owner Lukasz Rogowski offering no clear timeline for repayment.

In 2016, she was a single mom in Florida, living on a fixed income as a disabled Army veteran. Solar was pitched to her as a clean-energy upgrade that would do something simple and immediate: erase her electric bill.

Before the first golfer tees off each morning at Interlachen Country Club in Winter Park, superintendent Bryce Gibson is already walking the fairways, listening to birdsong, scouting dry spots and preparing 110 acres of maintained turf for the day ahead.

A Central Florida woman thought she was falling in love online. Instead, she lost thousands of dollars to a romance scheme and is now paying $130 a month from her Social Security check to cover a fraudulent debt.

An Orlando woman unknowingly became a pawn in a reshipping scam after taking what she thought was a legitimate work-from-home job, receiving and forwarding packages containing merchandise allegedly purchased with stolen credit card information.

Bowen Aquarium will occupy a 14-acre site on Port Canaveral property bordering the Banana River, located just off State Road 528. The campus will feature 10 buildings, some dedicated to the filtration systems required to maintain the large habitats, along with heavy landscaping designed to mirror the natural look and feel of natural Florida.

In just two years, a wave of major solar companies has filed for bankruptcy, the latest being Freedom Forever in April of this year, leaving customers confused, frustrated, and stuck with systems they don’t know how to manage.

Orange County Public Schools is starting the new school year 50 bus drivers short, leaving some students facing longer wait times as the district works to address a shortage that staff says has never been worse.

Over the past year, Sea and Shoreline, in partnership with Conservation Florida and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has planted 250,000 native eelgrass plants across a 50-acre stretch of the lake, a project that organizers say could have a ripple effect all the way to the Florida Everglades.

Chuck Gleichmann remembers when you could walk to the end of his dock along the Halifax River in Ormond-By-The-Sea and count the pebbles on the bottom. That was nearly 20 years ago. Today, he can’t see his hand 6 inches below the water’s surface.

A sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle named Wombat is back in the wild after spending three months recovering at the Marine Science Center in Volusia County.