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The greater Tampa Bay region has room for improvement across the board, according to a national organization's 2020 City Clean Energy Scorecard.

While Florida surpassed the 700,000 mark for COVID-19 cases, no deaths were recorded in the greater Tampa Bay region for the second Sunday in a row.

A top Florida Department of Health official said Saturday that three laboratories in the state can now test for the novel coronavirus, the contagious…

For the third week in a row, former Vice President Joe Biden scored lopsided wins against the Vermont senator and extended a delegate lead that may be impossible for Sanders to surmount.

The U.S. Congress recently passed the Great American Outdoors Act.If President Trump signs it as expected, the Act will provide funds not seen in decades…

The state is now releasing information about the number of patients and staff who have COVID-19 in individual nursing homes.Last week, the state began…

The Florida Panhandle and Keys are expected to experience the worst, while Tampa Bay will see rough surf and continued chances for thunderstorms.

A Florida girl recently got a huge surprise for her 9th birthday.

The iconic dancehall musician U-Roy has died at age 78. The DJ and vocalist known as "The Originator" had a massive impact on Jamaican music, and was also viewed as a crucial forebear to rap.

College seniors are increasingly turning to Internet-based resumes such as VisualCV, which uses keyword pop-ups, embedded documents, video and images. One Web site's founder says traditional resumes don't allow applicants to showcase their work.

Both House and Senate plans decrease the number of programs while opening them up to more students and also increase funding levels.

The city is seeing Christian and Jewish religious gatherings this week after the same events were canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered state officials to halt issuing new fracking permits by then as he looks to phase out all oil extraction by 2045.

A civil war that began last year in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has the international community concerned as hundreds of thousands of people in the region now live in famine.

At a convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters this week, the union announced plans to create a special division focused on organizing Amazon workers across the country.

Ohio had to quickly revise its design after realizing the original showed a plane pushing a banner instead of pulling it. North Carolina, where the historic flight took place, weighed in, too.

Scientists have been watching with alarm as the world's glaciers and arctic regions are showing more and more signs of melting. They suspect that global climate change -- fueled by industrial and vehicle emissions -- are to blame. But as NPR's Eric Niiler reports, this arctic thaw is also revealing a trove of ancient artifacts from people who dropped them thousands of years ago.

The U.S. Department of Justice claims the Texas law contains several provisions that "will disenfranchise eligible Texas citizens who seek to exercise their right to vote."

After asking state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to wear a mask, the senator has been receiving death threats.

The annual tradition pays tribute to people for achievements made over the previous year. The government said it was the most ethnically diverse Honours List yet.

NPR's Scott Simon details how many of Brazil's açaí berries are harvested: by children.

The go-ahead has been given to injecting polluted water from the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County deep under the drinking water aquifer.

President Biden plans to stick with Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Fed is wrestling with an uneven recovery and the highest inflation in more than three decades.

Maya Shankar was well on her way to an extraordinary career as a violinist when an injury closed that door. This week, we revisit our December 2015 conversation with Maya, in which she shares how she found a new path forward after losing an identity she loved.

It may be Hollywood's biggest night, but fewer people chose to watch the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday. It's the fourth consecutive year viewership has declined as Oscars lose luster to Web rivals.