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Funeral services were held today for U.S. Rep. Bill Young, who died last week after 43 years in Congress.Several hundred people gathered at the First…

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam calls citrus greening "as bad a situation as it could possible be for Florida signature crop." That's why the state's…

WUSF News has embarked on a new storytelling mission called "Telling Tampa Bay Stories," where our journalists will be visiting some of the region’s…

Free orange juice will continue to be available to travelers at Florida welcome centers as the state Department of Citrus squeezes staff to help the…

With a slogan of "Like class...but way better," the orchestra is working with USF School of Music students, visiting patients at the Moffitt Cancer Center, and sharing classical music with the public at a concert Thursday evening.

Alligators have been used as shoes, briefcases, university mascots, lunch and now, authorities say, a deadly weapon.Joshua James, 24, was arrested Monday…

Floridians planning a long day trip for the Memorial Day holiday can breathe a little easier.AAA, the auto club, released a report estimating that…

A deal on the state's public-safety budget that lawmakers reached late Friday would not give the Department of Corrections the 734 additional positions ...

Electrical outages during recent hurricanes have many homeowners investing in portable generators which have become more affordable and available to…

Gov. Rick Scott asked federal officials Friday to add Florida airports to the list of the five around the country that have stepped up security to monitor…

"I want him to suffer," Onil Castro tells CNN about his brother Ariel, who is accused of kidnapping three young women and holding them captive in his home for about a decade. Onil and Pedro Castro, another brother, say they knew nothing about what was allegedly happening inside their brother's home.

Update, 10 p.m. 8/26/14: With some precincts yet to report, Detzner says he believes more voters cast ballots early and absentee than on Election Day....

Weather permitting, on Wednesday morning you'll be able to see the second lunar eclipse visible in North America in a series of four that runs through next year.

Who stole the American Dream? That's the title of Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Hedrick Smith's latest book.The man who helped publish the Pentagon…

A University of South Florida graduate who was one of the lawyers in a ground-breaking gay and lesbian rights case will speak at his alma mater Thursday…

By the end of the week, the Tampa Bay Rays may be able to look for a new stadium site in Hillsborough County, thanks to a tentative deal reached with the…

Mann Wagnon Memorial Park is a peaceful hideaway in the middle of the bustling city of Tampa off Nebraska Avenue. It's where the Museum of Science and…

About 9.9 million people have signed up and paid for health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, the administration said Tuesday, a...

Florida is on the way to eradicating the largest outbreak of Oriental fruit flies in the state's history, an agriculture official told a Senate panel…

A new analysis of Florida’s health care markets finds that as the state’s hospitals consolidate and expand, new business models are shifting the...

The cash-strapped Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, which a decade ago was part of the state's drive to bring more biotech jobs to...

An administrative law judge is considering a challenge to the Florida Department of Health involving the eligibility of children for a state program...

Using a metal tool called a chakpo, Losang Samten arranges brightly-colored sand into intricate designs at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts."What…

According to a new report, more children than ever before have health insurance. Florida joins 40 other states that insured more children between 2013...

This week on Florida Matters (Tuesday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 17 at 7:30 a.m.), we are talking about entrepreneurs here in the Tampa Bay…