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The fourth annual Barktoberfest, an Orange County Animal Services adoption event, will return Saturday to Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. More than 20 area pet rescue groups will attend the event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the southeast side of the lake area. In addition to pets being offered for adoption, Barktoberfest features food trucks, cute pups wandering around, free...

The Florida Department of Transportation in partnership with the City of Orlando will be holding Orlando's first Ciclovia! A Ciclovia is a Spanish term meaning cycleway. They are a long-standing tradition in South America where they close miles of roads every Sunday. During a Ciclovia event the roads are closed to cars, but not to people for walking or biking. Orlando's first Ciclovia will take place this...

Up, up and away. That's what you might call Orlando's rental market, long regarded as one of the U.S.'s most affordable. But no more, as viewed by a new report. Apartment renters in the area are now spending more than one third of their incomes (34.3 percent) to pay landlords, according to a study by the RealtyTrac real estate research company. There's no let-up expected in Orlando rents, either....

Have you heard of the newest addition to our downtown Orlando community? Thanks to Orlando's latest innovation, the SunRail, downtown is introducing the first transit-oriented development called Crescent Central Station. This $200 million, 278-unit luxury apartment community and 15,000 square feet of retail space will be located at 400 N Orange Ave. at the intersection of Amelia St. and Orange Ave. In...