Few days are as perfect for lounging in pajamas all morning as Thanksgiving and Christmas. With Thanksgiving right around the ...

This is the first day of the Thanksgiving Holiday in Volusia County public schools. Classes will resume Monday, Dec. 2.

The staff of The West Volusia Beacon, your hometown newspaper, wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving Day.

Fitness was a passion for Margaret “Maggie” Dobson. Her vehicle license plate read “Xercise.” Fitness drove her. It was the ...

PHOTO BY DILLON WILSON-BECK; FIRST WIN — The football team from Pine Ridge High School in Deltona celebrates their first win ...

The constitution limits counties to 10 mills. That ought not be a difficult limit, except for a free-spending county like ...

When it comes to being tired of politics after this campaign season, the kids beat us to it. When talking with hundreds of ...

By Philip C. Restino, Jr.1, 2024 World War I, the “war to end all wars,” ended when the armistice between the Allied Nations ...

Remembering the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 106 years ago, when the guns fell silent along the Western Front ...

BEACON PHOTOS/AL EVERSON; THE FIRST STEP IN GOVERNING — As City Clerk Joyce Raftery, at left, administers the oath, ...

As I noted in a previous letter, lying is virtually a requirement for some politicians. But it is time to repeal DeSantis’ mandate that Florida teachers lie […] ...

Santa is making his list and checking it twice at Volusia County’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Division. As part of an ...