Florida has some fairly nice motels. However, they can get expensive. If you stay in a $200-a-night facility, it will cost you around $70,000 per year. If you have a spouse, you may split the cost.

The proposal to build a five-story building with 84 apartments on the site where the Hotel Putnam once stood in Downtown DeLand got a green light June 5 from the city’s Historic Preservation Board.

In the comedy/drama Ripcord at Shoestring Theatre in Lake Helen, Abby Binder (played by Sally Daykin) resides on the sunny second floor of Bristol Place Senior Living Facility. She is a cantankerous ...

Pick up the latest issue of The West Volusia Beacon and The Beacon EXTRA! at a quality retailer near you: DeBary Walgreens – 15 N. Charles Richard Beall Blvd. (U.S. 17-92) Winn Dixie – 2 N. Charles ...

As so clearly explained in the Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2023, issue of The Beacon, the Hotel Putnam situation is a tragedy allowed to happen by repeated waves of elected and appointed public officials. Every ...

State regulators Tuesday signed off on plans that will lead to millions of utility customers seeing increased electric bills in April because of hurricane costs and higher-than-expected natural gas ...

Along with public universities across the state, Stetson University now accepts test results from the Classic Learning Test in addition to the SAT and ACT standardized tests.

The Volusia County emergency rental assistance portal reopened this morning, Jan. 12, for new applications. The county was prepared to accept 500 applications, and it did in just 36 minutes.

In a special meeting Aug. 30, the County Council voted to eliminate the local tax on telephone, cable and satellite-TV services in the noncity portions of the county. The tax ends Dec. 31. The council ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight — the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been. They report that the threats of ...

In just a few days, Americans will celebrate the 249th year of their nationhood. July 4 is the 249th anniversary of our national charter, our national birth certificate, whose statements and ...

President Joe Biden has done an outstanding job, starting with his handling of the major disruption of the pandemic that affected world travel and altered our daily lives.