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Key West last year became the first place in the mainland U.S. to ban the sale of sunscreens containing two chemicals that studies have found harm coral...

News Service of FloridaGov. Ron DeSantis’ net worth dropped nearly 9 percent in 2018 as he left Congress and made a successful run for governor.DeSantis…

Bolstered by U.S. and Canadian tourists, Florida’s visitor count continued at a record pace through the second quarter of 2019, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office…

With the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Michael approaching, local first responders received a $1.1 million grant from the state Thursday, the first…

Powerful Hurricane Dorian has been going nowhere because nothing high up is making it budge.It may sound strange when talking about a storm that once had…

St. Petersburg is one step closer to becoming the next Florida city to allow people to rent electric scooters. The City Council voted 6-1 Thursday in…

WUSF News is once again seeking student journalists who want to work and learn in a professional newsroom. We're taking applications for a number of…

A group calling themselves All for Transportation is looking to revive efforts to fund transportation improvements in Hillsborough County through a penny…

Florida's busiest airport is becoming the first in the nation to require a face scan of passengers on all arriving and departing international flights,...

With two grocery stores set to close about 10 miles apart on Jacksonville’s Northwest side, some city officials are concerned residents won’t have...

The administration has plans to greatly expand investigations and audits of businesses suspected of employing illegal immigrants.

Broward County schools Superintendent Robert Runcie on Wednesday showed off a new system of fences and locked doors at Miramar High School — an example...

One out of every seven babies born to U.S. mothers who were infected with Zika during pregnancy developed some kind of health problem, according to the...

A year after Hurricane Irma ravaged Florida’s citrus industry, growers are on pace to slightly surpass their production from two years ago.

Florida watchdog TaxWatch has released it’s assessment of the Florida College System. Their research found the schools raise wages for their graduates...

Behind schedule and struggling to fix irregularities in the count, the Census Bureau is working toward Jan. 9 as the next date in the process for releasing results, a bureau employee tells NPR.

Cold War spy George Blake died at age 98. NPR recounts his life of passing British secrets to the Soviets, his arrest and daring escape to Russia, where he died years later.

The number of coronavirus tests returned Sunday was under 40,000 — the positivity rate for tests was just below 5%.

The deaths caused by the pandemic appear to be shortening overall life expectancy in the U.S. by 1.13 years, which would be the largest single decline in at least 40 years.

The rate of people who tested positive for the coronavirus for the first time on Friday dropped to 10.17%, close to the seven-day average of 10.2%.

State officials were unable to release data about the virus on Saturday after it received about 400,000 previously-reported COVID-19 test results from a private lab.

Panelists at a virtual meeting Friday discussed Amendment 2, which would raise Florida’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026.

The Rays are heading to the World Series for the second time.

A boil water order went into effect Monday evening for Tampa, as well as some Hillsborough County communities that receive their water from the city.

Audiences heard James Earl Jones' voice as the iconic Star Warsvillain, but it was Prowse behind Darth Vader's mask.