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West Orlando News Online West Orlando News focuses on news around the greater Orlando metropolitan area, Central FL and state. We appreciate your continued trust. Our passion is clear.

Thank you to our readers and supporters — 2022 readership is at historic high levels for West Orlando News! West Orlando News Online was born in September 2005 and emerged from a print publication to a now entirely digital one. The West Orlando News has emerged as a leader in hyperlocal news, commentary and the online citizen journalism movement. Our approach to local-first news, feature stories,

politics, education, crime and quality of life issues is refreshing for its honesty and accuracy, and reflects the real world here in the middle of the I-4 corridor. With their diverse backgrounds and interests, our local writers, bloggers and other contributors have two things in common: a love for Orlando and a desire to share it with others. We encourage unique perspectives, meaningful commentary and reporting you may not find from establishment media sources. Our readers like it like that. The biggest contributors to the site are our readers — their active participation and support has turned West Orlando News into the logical source for local news and politics, with an independent perspective on the world we call Orlando, Florida. It is currently run by Managing Editor Mike Cantone and Publisher Keith Longmore (founded by Editor Emeritus Gillian Nanton). West Orlando News has even been featured in stories by Columbia Journalism Review. We believe that Orlando is much more than a dysfunctional, good old boy town with opportunities for the well-connected and low wage jobs with subpar quality of life for everyone else. In fact, we believe that Orlando, with its surrounding communities, is actually a gigantic, vibrant melting pot with incredible people and phenomenal possibilities. As a result, the greater Central Florida community deserves a local media company such as ours, where all of our content is truly representative of this entire community. That means we celebrate the good in our community as much as possible, but we also criticize the bad while calling out the injustices that persist in Orlando. We believe in providing a voice for people who need one. We believe in holding the powerful accountable.

01/12/2026

A one-of-a-kind New Original Henry Deluxe Engraved Edition Rifle recently sold during a live auction at Mar-a-Lago.

01/12/2026

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents The Greatest Show On Earth is now open, a nationwide tour, a 60-city, nonstop, music-driven circus experience.

01/12/2026

Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida was awarded more than $209 million from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program.

01/12/2026

$50 billion was awarded to strengthen rural health in all 50 states.

01/12/2026

FWC released the official results of the 2025 black bear hunt in Florida.

01/12/2026

The State Attorney’s Office will seek the death penalty for two men for the ambush shooting of a 15-year-old girl in Central Florida.

01/12/2026

A Young Guns defendant was indicted for murder in a Daytona Beach shooting case.

01/12/2026

A Central Florida man was arrested for critically injuring a three-month-old baby.

01/12/2026

A man was sentenced for killing and dismembering a Central Florida mom. The man who shot Indian Harbour Beach mother Nancy Howery and hid her remains across an undeveloped area of Palm Bay has been sentenced to life in prison. 35-year-old Daniel L. Stearns was convicted at trial of second-degree mur...

01/12/2026

A Tampa Police officer was arrested after a domestic violence investigation.

01/12/2026

A man on active felony probation was recently arrested for a violent attack in Central Florida, accused of forcing his way into a residence.

01/12/2026

Teens who were visiting Central Florida to compete in a football tournament were arrested for felony retail theft.

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