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Parents and students at a middle school in northeast Albuquerque got the chance to see the upgrades that were put in over the summer.

Dozens of public commenters did not get their wish for the commission to deny WEC Jockey Club plans, but the developer did cut out the 200-room hotel.

In southwest Marion County, tucked between the sprawling Marion Oaks community to the west and Interstate 75 to the east, Southwest 20th Avenue Road is lined with mostly small cattle ranches and mid-size horse farms. Just south of these rural farms sits a 221-acre parcel, with for-sale signs on billboards facing I-75. That property is poised to become an 841-home family development, adjacent to and north of the gated SummerGlen retirement community. Located on Southwest 20th Avenue Road, 2.2 miles south of County Road 484, SummerGlen is a great place to live because it's so peaceful jus...

The completion of the Southwest 49th Avenue extension – a 12.3-mile, four-lane connector that will link Ocala and Marion Oaks – is still at least three years from completion, according to Marion County officials and documents. The road, which is being funded by mostly one-cent sales tax revenue, will help reduce State Road 200 corridor traffic. It will one day be a four-lane road from 42nd Street Flyover to the north to Marion Oaks Manor, south of CR 484, to the south. There are still three main segments of the Southwest 49th Avenue project that have not launched. The total cost ...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated with information received from Florida Department of Transportation after it was originally posted.) The intersection of State Road 200 and Southwest 80th Street has seen its share of vehicle crashes. Among those killed there in the past 13 years have been an emergency room doctor and a registered nurse. An infant was seriously injured. As residential and business growth soars along the SR 200 corridor — the stretch of highway between Interstate 75 and County Road 484 — so do traffic counts and the desire of drivers to find bypass roads ...