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The number of sinkholes in Florida has surged since Hurricane Irma. Some 400 sinkholes have been reported statewide since Hurricane Irma hit in...

A national study released Tuesday provides a state-by-state look at life expectancy and the factors that are killing Floridians, and as one might expect...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back on Capitol Hill today to answer questions from Congress.In the second of two hearings, Zuckerberg faces members of…

House Speaker Paul Ryan isn't the only longterm politician who is calling it quits. Congressman Dennis Ross announced Tuesday he's ready to retire.Ross…

In 2011, Gov. Rick Scott signed a law backed by the National Rifle Association that essentially stripped cities of their right to enact gun control…

Shopping as we know it is changing fast. Big box stores are vanishing; Amazon is going bricks and mortar. What does it all mean for the health of our…

Tampa strip club owner and cancer patient Joe Redner can use medical marijuana he grows on his own, a Leon County Circuit judge ruled Wednesday.Redner…

The Lakeland Police Department is defending the actions of two officers who came under fire after a video posted on social media showed them fighting a…

Gov. Rick Scott is asking U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to move quickly to get disaster-relief funding into the hands of Florida citrus...

Object to abortion? You may be able to get an exemption from the Affordable Care Act tax penalty for people who don't get health insurance.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn wants to divest the city's employee pension fund from companies that make guns and ammo. A recent staff review found that about…

Some veterans say they contracted hepatitis from the "jet gun" that was used to immunize them in the Vietnam era, but researchers haven't proven that link.

Expect efforts to revamp workers’ compensation insurance laws to return as new House and Senate leaders take over for the 2019 legislative session,...

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s headquarters in Tallahassee were the site Thursday of the third demonstration in as many days by...

An online pharmacy that bills itself as Canada's largest is expected to be fined $34 million Friday for importing counterfeit cancer drugs and other...

School districts across Florida are grappling with how to implement a new law adopted after the mass school shooting in Parkland.In the next academic…

WUSF News reporters won honors in six categories of the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters contest.The awards for work in 2017 were announced Saturday…

Members of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition twice embarked on 1,000-mile treks across the state in the past seven years. Their mission: to bring…

Calling all planets that orbit around bright, nearby stars: NASA's new Tess spacecraft is looking to do a head count.The Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

The Florida Constitution Revision Commission is heading to the finish line, with a dozen ballot proposals up for final votes this week.The 37-member…

Defense attorneys for two of the nine men charged with felony hazing in the death of Florida State Pi Kappa Phi pledge Andrew Coffey say they have...

Florida voters will decide whether the state Constitution should mandate death benefits be paid when law enforcement officers, correctional officers,...

Five men have accepted a plea deal and will serve jail time for the hazing death of a Florida State University student.

Florida voters will have a chance to ban vaping in restaurants and other businesses, prohibit oil drilling in state waters, create a list of crime…

In an interview with NPR, the fired FBI director maintained he wouldn't do things differently if he had a chance. "I saw this as a 500-year flood," he said, "and so where is the manual?"