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A bill aimed at reducing instability for foster children has started to move forward in the Florida Senate and would require the child-welfare system to...

Senate leaders crafting new districts for the chamber in 2012 held confidential meetings to discuss maps with lawmakers before the maps were made public,…

As Black Violin, Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste say they're merely demonstrating what two music styles with traditionally disparate audiences have in common.

Look closely at a bill from your health care provider, and there's likely a sigh of relief your insurance company negotiated a better rate than the...

He's an artist, a pigeon fancier and a tattoo artist. Brooklyn-based Duke Riley has found a muse in the lowly pigeon. It's a bird often derided as a sort…

Hispanics in the United States have a longer life expectancy, but a poll finds few older Latinos are confident that nursing homes and assisted living...

Hurricane Irma's projected path is still not clear, but state leaders are urging Floridians to prepare for the worst. Some events around the Tampa Bay…

Substance abuse experts and law enforcement officers are calling on lawmakers to bolster access to treatment for people battling opioid addiction. The...

A bipartisan proposal to calm churning health insurance markets gained momentum Thursday when enough lawmakers rallied behind it to give it potentially...

In a state built on air conditioning, millions of Florida residents now want to know: When will the power come back on?Hurricane Irma's march across…

On Wednesday, Dr. Mohsen Milani's boss came to him with an idea.USF Provost, Dr. Ralph Wilcox, wanted Milani, the Executive Director of the USF Center for…

A closely contested House special election Tuesday is being viewed by the national parties and big-money interests as an early barometer for Obamacare.

A look at the proportion of Republicans and Democrats speaking on air in relation to the "fiscal cliff" offers an insight into political bias by NPR. The finding? A pretty even balance, despite a slight Republican tilt in the numbers. But further dissection welcomed.

Before you flip to your 2013 NPR Wall Calendar, look back at some public radio highlights from 2012 to see where your NPR fandom ranks on The Robert Sieg-O-Meter.

Strains of regret mixed with forgiveness are reflected in "Behind the Wall", a documentary by a University of South Florida professor who chronicles the…

The former clinic owner accused of selling performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez has agreed to plead guilty in what prosecutors called a wide...

Bridget McKinney, principal at Miami's Allapattah Middle School, says her students struggle to pass the state's reading and writing tests.So when McKinney…

Right now, medicine’s future might just be sitting behind a curtain on the first floor of the Morsani Center for Advanced Health Care on the University of…

Despite several changes made in recent days to assuage the concerns of the Republican majority, the Florida House remains poised to defeat a health-care...

These older policies existed before the health law was enacted in 2010 and haven't change much. They cover about a quarter of insured workers, and aren't subject to the same rules as Obamacare plans.

A second day of negotiations between House and Senate lawmakers over a spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1 seemed to highlight...

Poison Ivy came out as a transgender woman to her family in January. Her grandmother kicked her out of the house. “She didn’t want to see me...

The first time some students learn about finances is during a high school economics class. Others learn by trial and error, but one program in the Tampa…

During a time when many Florida counties were cutting back on summer school due to a lack of money, Pinellas County started expanding theirs using a…

Theresa Civil is a high school junior and a wrestler. The Orlando teen has a big smile and a big laugh, and she’s got big plans for after high school:...