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A new study calculates how many dangerously hot days the nation's military bases could experience over the next few decades if no action is taken to…

People who visited Busch Gardens in Tampa over a decade ago might remember receiving free samples of beer.That program was discontinued in 2009 after…

Beginning Jan. 1, a half-penny increase will go into effect for Hillsborough County sales taxes to benefit the local public school district. Voters…

State Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said Tuesday that she will be stepping down from her post on Jan. 8.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is committed to protecting the state’s Medicaid program for needy residents through evidence-based medicine, Mary Mayhew, his choice...

Voters in the city of Tampa will go to the polls Tuesday to select a new mayor to replace Bob Buckhorn, who's being term-limited out of office. The odds…

Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans may soon merge with a St. Louis-based company to create one of the biggest insurers in the country.But that means the…

Sen. Marco Rubio says new sanctions on Venezuela are an important step to ending the rule of Nicolas Maduro. But the Miami Republican says other countries…

For nine consecutive years, Sarasota County has maintained a top spot in a national report that looks at county health outcomes and compares it to the…

The variant that emerged in Britain was first detected in the state last week in a Martin County man. California has 26 cases of the mutated virus.

The governor said residents of long-term care facilities will get first priority when it is available later this month.

On this day in 1979, Morning Edition broadcast its first show, bringing a new style of storytelling to the early-drive-time airwaves. That first show was hosted by Bob Edwards and Barbara Hoctor.

House and Senate differences remain on proposals to extend Medicaid benefits for postpartum women and spending for hospitals and nursing homes.

The British rapper made a trip all the way from the UK just for this Tiny Desk performance and powered through a set that made the personal political.

There is no one making music like this 27-year-old, classically trained opera tenor and pianist. Watch and see why.

Lawmakers have introduced a bill to make colby the official state cheese of Wisconsin. This isn't the first attempt — spearheaded by the town of Colby — to make this happen.

Jones has been working double-time this year. He joins Linda Wertheimer to discuss a new memoir, tracing his life from a Welsh coal town to 20 years of superstardom — as well as a new album.

Portions of the greater Tampa Bay region are under a heat advisory until Thursday night.

The 3D space epic Gravity made $35.5 million over its first weekend in China. Catching Fire, the second in the Hunger Games franchise opened two days later. The China Film Group says it does that to "create a space for domestic movies to survive and grow."

This includes all salary and non-union hourly employees.

Schauffele won the men's golf competition by one stroke over Slovakia's Rory Sabbatini. Schauffele said he would deliver the gold medal to his father who once dreamed of being an Olympic decathlete.

Areas east of Tampa are under a Heat Advisory, meaning feels-like temperatures are expected to be between 110 and 115.

Pioneering hip-hop artist Keith Grayson, who performed as DJ Kay Slay, has died of complications from COVID-19. He worked with stars such as Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Jadakiss and Busta Rhymes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday. The State Department declined to comment to NPR.

In 2016, Shabana Basij-Rasikh created Afghanistan's School of Leadership for girls. When the Taliban took control in 2021, she helped her students flee and continued their education abroad.