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If the "Fiscal Cliff" wasn't enough to worry about, then how about a sequestration? The word sounds like the name of an ominous spaceship falling from the…

Arguing there is a "demonstrated problem with drug use" among people receiving public assistance, attorneys for Gov. Rick Scott's administration filed a…

Fifty-seven people in Tampa and Miami were arrested Tuesday in a nationwide crackdown on Medicare fraud. The U.S. Department of Health and Human...

The measure would have required the Social Security Administration to send records of some beneficiaries with severe mental disabilities to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Press secretary Sean Spicer's comments on Thursday came as a poll indicated a majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana.

A contentious plan to let grocery stores sell liquor is still alive in the Florida statehouse. But some are dismissing the issue as insider baseball,...

The state of Florida came a step closer Tuesday to formally apologizing for the abuse of hundreds of children over the course of a century at the…

This story was updated on April 6 at 12:20 p.m.St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman today filled in city council members on the "Baseball Forever" plan to…

The Florida House is forging ahead with a measure funneling millions of dollars to a pregnancy support organization that opposes abortion. The move...

Gov. Rick Scott gave his sixth State of the State address recently. He touched on some familiar themes, such as claiming to have helped create more than a…

With the U.S. Supreme Court expected later this week to review a recommendation that would deny Florida relief in its decades-old water dispute with...

House budget subcommittees are unveiling their ideas for spending cuts. House leaders ordered each panel develop a list of potential reductions in light...

Every 20 years, a 37-person commission comes up with a list of amendments to the Florida Constitution. The next cohort of the Constitutional Revision...

If you love maps, there's a new display at the Tampa Bay History Center that you're going to want to check out.The museum is working with the University…

A Senate committee Tuesday narrowly approved a bill that would eliminate part of Florida law that allows employers to deny benefits to injured workers...

Gov. Rick Scott delivered his eighth and final State of the State address Tuesday on the opening day of the 2018 legislative session.Florida Matters…

State agencies spent $680.2 million after Hurricane Irma, with county government costs exceeding $1 billion, according to a draft of a report by the...

Nineteen-year-old Mohammed Haitham was one of three people killed on Friday at the Pensacola Naval Base. Over the weekend, family and friends remembered…

The decision sets the stage for a battle over whether a president can defy congressional and grand jury subpoena power.

Florida legislators this year will weigh whether to continue a controversial policy that limits the length of time people have to apply for the Medicaid...

A proposal is once again in play to eliminate an untouched pool of state money set aside in 2014 to help build and renovate professional sports…

An investigation by Moffitt Cancer Center found that its CEO, director and four researchers did not report their participation in a Chinese program that…

The actor and puppeteer performed on the popular TV show from its very first episode in 1969 until his retirement last year.

The National Hurricane Center has classified the tropical low over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico as a “potential tropical cyclone” (PTC), and it could…

By Jim Turner/ News Service of FloridaFlorida’s citrus industry ended its growing season on a slight uptick, regaining the Sunshine State’s dominance in…