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Kissimmee city commissioners decided to tighten rules they follow when spending taxpayer money on travel Tuesday after a discussion about the mayor’s upcoming trip to Washington, D.C. Commissioners voted unanimously to update policy adopted in 2017 after questions were raised about the trip. At the end of the month Mayor Olga Gonzalez is going to represent the city at a faith-based summit. The ...

A federal funding delay is imperiling the completion of a new homeless shelter and affordable housing units in Osceola County, Kissimmee officials say. Kissimmee’s prized Haven on Vine project needs the federal money to finish remodeling the Super 8 motel on West Vine Street into 40 emergency housing units and 80 affordable housing apartments. On Tuesday, Kissimmee officials — worried they ...

Funding for flood mitigation, affordable housing and ways to regain local government authority are on the wish list of elected officials from Osceola County, and the cities of Kissimmee and St. Cloud, and they asked the region’s Tallahassee representatives to fight for them during the upcoming session, which starts Jan. 9. Reps. Carolina Amesty, Kristen Arrington and Paula Stark and Sen. ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”

WASHINGTON: Amtrak has submitted applications for approximately $716 million in Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) funding for 16 proposed projects around the country that would improve Long Distance reliability, reduce travel times and expand service.