Universal Orlando Resort will open its fourth central Florida theme park, just in time for Memorial Day next year.

Florida theme parks including Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld say they’ll open their gates on Friday after shutting down for Hurricane Milton.

Universal Orlando Resort is conducting a star search for its new vlogger-style series, WKMG reports.

Universal Orlando Resort has filed paperwork and pledged 13 acres for a commuter rail station that could link the seventh busiest airport in the U.S. with the heart of the tourism district in one of the top travel destinations in the world.

Police officers cleared out parking garages at Universal Orlando Resort following a fight among juveniles that led some visitors to mistakenly believe there was an active shooter situation.

Starting next month, workers at Universal Orlando’s theme parks will have to be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing in order to comply with federal guidelines.

After a pandemic-related absence of a year, Halloween Horror Nights are back with haunted houses based on the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Bride of Frankenstein” planned for Universal theme parks in California and Florida.

Research and development of the coaster has also been years in the making, but overall construction took a little more than two years.

The creators of the Jurassic World VelociCoaster roller coaster at Universal Orlando Resort had more to contend with than just encounters with rabid raptors.

Universal Orlando Resort announced the return of graduation events Friday including the popular Grad Bash and Gradventure.

ORLANDO, Fla. Hotels at the Universal Orlando Resort announced more than 800 employees will be losing their jobs as the Florida theme park industry continues to be devastated by the pandemic. The employees at Hard Rock Hotel, Loews Portofino Bay Hotel and Cabana Bay Beach Resort were indefinitely furloughed or permanently terminated, according to a notice filed last week by the company Loews Hotels & Co.A company director said in a letter to the state that the surge of confirmed cases in late June and July and other states' decisions to order Florida travelers to quarantine had caused a sudden, dramatic and unexpected reversal in bookings." The affected employees were not represented by a union. They work as cooks, chefs, servers, receptionists and housekeepers. Loews Hotels & Co had already shut down two other Universal Orlando hotels due to the coronavirus impact on tourism, The Orlando Sentinel reported.

In this Wednesday, June 3, 2020 photo, signs about social distancing and other protocols are seen about the theme park as guests walk by at Universal Orlando Resort Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. Universal Orlando became the first of Orlando's major theme park resorts to reopen by allowing annual pass-holders to return to its three parks Wednesday and Thursday. All of Florida's theme parks temporarily closed this spring, and Floridians and theme parks fans across the U.S. were forced to stay home because of state and local lockdown orders meant to stop the virus's spread. Orlando's theme park industry, and synergistic businesses like hotels and restaurants, were devastated by the coronavirus-related closures. Tens of thousands of workers were furloughed and the theme park resorts have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Universal Orlando officials said Thursday that the resort is doubling in size with plans for an "epic" fourth theme park, but they offered almost no information on when the new park will open, what it will hold or how much they are spending. The announcement is the latest salvo in the war for dominance between Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando in America's theme park capital. Despite the lack of details, officials with the theme park resort promised the new park would be epic. The fourth park will be the biggest investment the Comcast NBCUniversal has made in its theme park business, Robert said. pic.twitter.com/zmacNkTkbJ Universal Orlando Resort (@UniversalORL) August 1, 2019Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Halloween Horror Nights kicks off at Universal Orlando Resort on Sept. 6 and runs for 41 days until Nov. 2. In preparation of the annual scare event, Universal announced it will post 2,000 jobs to help run 10 haunted houses, five scare zones, live entertainment and other spectacles. The part-time and full-time jobs include attendants, food service and security starting at $12 per hour. This year's Halloween Horror Nights will also include a new tundra themed house called Yeti: Terror of the Yukon. Copyright 2019 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Halloween Horror Nights kicks off at Universal Orlando Resort on Sept. 6 and runs for 41 days until Nov. 2. In preparation of the annual scare event, Universal announced it will post 2,000 jobs to help run 10 haunted houses, five scare zones, live entertainment and other spectacles. The part-time and full-time jobs include attendants, food service and security starting at $12 per hour. Applications can be submitted to https://www.universalorlandojobs.com/. This year's Halloween Horror Nights will also include a new tundra themed house called Yeti: Terror of the Yukon​.

“That’s how it is everywhere,” said Williams, referring to the stacks of plastic bins, banks of x-ray machines, and more than a dozen walk-though metal detectors that now greet most visitors arriving at Universal Orlando. Universal Orlando Resort is now the first theme park operator in Central Florida to screen most bags with X-ray machines while also requiring visitors to pass through metal detectors. Frequent visitors first started noticing the X-rays and metal detectors appearing in the transportation hub outside CityWalk in late June. At Walt Disney World theme parks, security officers inspect bags by hand. At SeaWorld, visitors' bags are inspected manually.