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Manatee's Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously in favor of a data center moratorium at a July 28 meeting. The move also directs county staff to potentially revise their land development code.

Florida's Rural and Family Lands Protection Program is protecting more than 9,100 acres in the Peace River Valley.

An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire in waters off Madura island, killing at least five people and leaving 41 others unaccounted for, authorities said

There are at least three fires in and around the city. Large parts of Spokane are under Level 3 evacuation orders, which read: "Leave NOW! This may be your only notice."

A surge in immigration arrests in South Florida has alarmed immigrant rights advocates and detainee families, who are pleading for local law enforcement authorities to end their cooperation with federal immigration agencies in detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.

A gated community called Return to the Land in the northeastern Ozarks was designed exclusively for white people. A St. Louis realtor is challenging the plans after her application was rejected.

Evacuees from fire zones often scramble to find shelter for pets, and some are just found wandering. A shelter in Colorado is busy trying to help.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened training camp dealing with contract squabbles. Coach Todd Bowles said he isn’t concerned about the contract issues becoming a distraction.

The news comes as two key Republicans are withholding their support over concerns about the Justice Department's deal with President Trump.

A key Republican senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, said he would back Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, smoothing the path for his ultimate confirmation by the Senate.

From a festival for foodies to a back-to-school bash and Legos galore, here are a few things you can check out across the region.

Edwards made the announcement after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured over "persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers."

NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses recent Supreme Court decisions and what they reveal about the justices' views on executive power with Amy Howe, co-founder of SCOTUSblog.

The number of enrollees in SNAP was dipping before the July 2025 enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act but increased as the law took effect. The law slashes spending on the food security program by $187 billion over a decade.

Although a trough will be around the Peninsula, there will also be an influx of Saharan dust into the state, but it will stay mainly across South and Central Florida.

President Trump signed two executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and "birth tourism." The latter is an issue that Trump has raised for years.

The Zombies are the subject of a new documentary. Today, we hear from Blunstone, the group's lead singer. "I tend to sing sad songs better than happy-go-lucky songs," he said in this 1998 interview.

The waters off Florida and across the Caribbean are reaching record-breaking temperatures. As high as 100-plus degrees Fahrenheit. If warm seawater is here to stay, what will it mean for all that lives in the ocean and on land?

In 2010, Mayor Cory Booker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg devised a plan to improve Newark's failing schools. Dale Russakoff recounts their efforts in The Prize.

Rick Moody discusses his new novel, which is told solely in the form of online hotel reviews. The narrator of Hotels Of North America is increasingly down on his luck — and may even be homeless.

Former national security official Rush Doshi says President Trump's sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods sparked a clash in which China prevailed. We look at the current state of U.S.-China relations.

The mostly white country and folk music industries remain frustratingly difficult for Black musicians to enter. During one of Nashville's biggest events, one group envisioned a new pathway in.

Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool Web site, talks about what individual investors can learn from the careers of Warren Buffett and Kenneth Lay.

Female editors at top women's magazines — Deborah Way of O, The Oprah Magazine, Damarys Ocana of Latina, and Dawn Baskerville of Essence — discuss topics highlighted in current issues of their publications.

Composer and inventor Tod Machover is looking to design the opera of the future. His new work, Death and the Powers, tells the story of a wealthy businessman who downloads himself into his environment in a bid for immortality. Machover, a professor of music and media at MIT, talks about his work melding music and technology.