CLERMONT -- Council members passed two seemingly conflicting ordinances on adult businesses Tuesday night: one that designated four potential locations where adult businesses could locate, and one that would almost certainly not allow them in those four locations.

The first ordinance restricts adult businesses such as strip clubs and adult book stores to industrial zones with a Conditional U ...

LEESBURG -- A Clermont-based software company is changing the way physicians and hospitals handle patient referrals, switching from a paper to an electronic system.

The software eliminates the need for paper referrals, an industry norm, said Pranam Ben, CEO of Visions@Work. About 90 percent of health care providers operate on a paper-based referral system, he said. This results in inefficien ...

Lake County teachers with big ideas will have more money available to help them become realities.

The Educational Foundation of Lake County announced Monday that nearly $5,000 in additional state matching funds have been contributed to its Grants for Great Ideas Program.

"Funds that aren't used statewide come back to a second pot," Foundation Executive Director Carman Cullen said. "So we' ...

TAVARES -- Before the real estate market imploded, Florida enjoyed substantial prosperity. Growth poured revenue into county coffers through impact fees.

Lake County is exploring ways to revive the building process by adjusting the method of collecting those fees.

At Monday's Lake County School Board workshop, school officials discussed the possibility of allowing the impact fees collect ...