Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday approved $200 million to continue a popular home-hardening grant program that could help about 20,000 mostly low- and moderate-income residents cut property-insurance costs.

State officials are touting SB 544 as a plan to save thousands of lives.

Speaking at a high school in Osceola County alongside Republican allies and a local pastor, the governor touted the measure (HB 931) as bolstering existing resources that could help students with their mental health.

Unhoused people across Florida will no longer be able to sleep on public property beginning in October. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law recently prohibiting the practice. Municipalities will have to enforce or face possible lawsuits.

The lessons would have to be “age appropriate and developmentally appropriate” and incorporate various topics related to communism, including the “history of communism in the United States and domestic communist movements” and “their histories and tactics.”

It will require that any “resident of the county who is not the parent or guardian of a student with access to school district materials may not object to more than one material per month.”

DeSantis says bad actors have turned book banning into a political stunt in Florida's K-12 schools.

Data shows the governor and politicians across the political spectrum may be overselling the frequency of retail theft.

It will celebrated every fourth Thursday in March to honor our nation’s first Black military pilots.

A farmworker, advocate and member of the medical community weigh in on Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a bill that will prohibit local governments enacting laws to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat.

A bill that would’ve added a $200 annual license tax to register electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles died before the end of Florida’s annual legislative session, never getting a hearing from the Senate’s Appropriations Committee.

CORE, a substance abuse and recovery network established in 2022, will cover 17 more counties, including Lake, Orange, Polk and Seminole, for a total of 29.