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A consultant is recommending that Brevard County fire assessment fees be increased by 11 percent a year for the next four years.

Two heavily traveled Melbourne intersections will be shut down for the next month, starting Monday.

Over the years, chiropractic care has become a popular method to cope with the aging of our backs, joints and spines.

Brevard County officials are proposing having Sheriff Wayne Ivey run the county's Animal Services and Enforcement Department, including animal shelters in Melbourne and Titusville, as well as enforcing the county's animal code and related rules.

A large aerospace company is planning an operation at Melbourne International Airport that could mean 1,800 new jobs paying an average of $100,000 a year, according to documents filed Wednesday with Brevard County.

Racism thrives in this country, only it's not the traditional picture you may think it is.

Retired Air Force Col. Stephen Niles has a new role in Brevard County as chief medical officer for Wuesthoff Health System, including its hospitals in Rockledge and Melbourne.

It's been more than a year since the Brevard Hall of Fame has been up and running at the Liberty Bell Memorial Museum in Melbourne, and organizers are still waiting for Kate Upton to contribute.

A Melbourne police officer resigned last month after several women came forward to complain that he had drove up to them in parking lots while on duty, asking for phone numbers, officials confirmed today.

Since she was a kid, the numbers 10 and 14 have been haunting for Hollie Freece.

Watch closely, she says, and you'll see an ancient creative process unfolding in a relatively new -- and faster -- storytelling medium.

A retired US police officer has offered a reward for his memory card to be returned after his camera was stolen in Taupo.

Since she was a kid, the numbers 10 and 14 have been haunting for Hollie Freece.

Mets infielder Wilmer Flores , who the club said earlier during spring training would get a "legitimate" look at shortstop, will make his first Grapefruit League start at the position Tuesday.

For 61-year-old Donna Street, walking from Fort Lauderdale to Washington, D.C., is a tough trek she's willing to take.

Hundreds of women converged on Saturday for the Brevard Women's Expo at the King Center in Melbourne.

Got culinary questions on how to prepare sugary sandesh sweets or potato-based aloo paneer tikki? Manikant Lodaya was your Indiafest information source at the Wickham Park Pavilion.

John Denninghoff jokingly refers to it as "Carmageddon." But Denninghoff, Brevard County's public works director, is serious when he says he wants to be sure drivers in South Brevard are aware of the implications of the temporary closing of a heavily traveled section of Palm Bay Road in the Palm Bay and West Melbourne area.

Here are your things to do in Brevard on Wednesday, March 5, 2014: Want to be in this calendar? Submit events at least two weeks in advance to tgif@floridatoday.com.

"A Gourmet's Kitchen Tour" takes visitors into seven of South and Central Brevard's top kitchens for a full day of inspiration and bonhomie.