A single complaint about a sign at a short-term rental house on West Minnesota Avenue opened a Pandora’s box of trouble for the owners of DeLand vacation rentals, and left the City Commission ...

Shoestring Theatre lost $8,799 in funding after the Volusia County Council failed to award more than $611,000 in all cultural grants for 2024-25 for 32 local arts organizations. For Shoestring, the ...

DeLand-based real estate agency Bee Realty Corp recently welcomed three new agents to its family of Realtors: Heath Kindt, Jayne Balta and Jackie DeSousa. The three new agents help make up a group of ...

My name is Kyra Sullivan, and I am a Stetson University student interning at The West Volusia Beacon. My very first story is on the 2025 black bear hunt. Black bears are my mom’s favorite animal. In ...

Greg Heeter’s recent Guest Commentary “Riding a bike is risky in DeLand” really struck a chord … or rather, a pedal with me. Our small-town community has so many charming things — quaint Downtown ...

It’s important to watch, listen and learn from your political opponents. I remember writing a Beacon column two decades ago about my reading Maureen Dowd’s columns because television and radio show ...

Richard Prescott, a longtime advocate for local business and community service, has taken on a new role as first vice president, commercial banker for Climate First Bank. Backed by 15 years of ...

Located within a three-minute drive of one another, DeLand is home to two boxing gyms, one built off of Muhammad Ali’s legacy and relocated to Central Florida by the 2008 financial crisis, and the ...

Editor, The Beacon: President Trump’s decision to involve the United States in escalating tensions between Israel and Iran by launching strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities is reckless, ...

The cause of a power outage in DeLand on Nov. 20 was a squirrel, The Beacon confirmed. Attempts to reach the immediate family of the squirrel were unsuccessful. Squirrels along the area and approached ...

This is a response to one of Tanner Andrews’ opinion columns. (I do wish you could print poetry in your newspaper). But it is a recording that you hear. They claim to value your business, a lie. Many ...

I’m pretty sure Brenda Starr fantasies have a place in the career development of many if not most people who end up in journalism. It’s simple, right? You find out stuff, write stuff and emerge as the ...