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Manatee County still doesn't have a permanent school superintendent. Just days before the Manatee County School Board was going to offer the position to…

The commission that's directing the Florida Legislature's response to the Parkland shooting will recommend that public school teachers be allowed to be...

Floridians living with HIV are increasingly getting the medications they need to stay healthy and prevent the spread of the virus, according to a new...

The Naples Holocaust Museum and Education Center is hosting an exhibit of violins once owned and played by victims of Nazi concentration camps. This...

Using chum to attract sharks in waters used by beachgoers, surfers and divers is closer to being banned in Florida, despite concerns the change will...

As USF St. Petersburg works to set new sustainability standards, the campus continues to implement eco-friendly projects.In 2016, USFSP adopted a Climate…

Florida Orchestra Music Director Michael Francis is adding a new job title — principal conductor of the German Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

A conservative federal judge in Texas has ruled the Affordable Care Act "invalid" on the eve of the sign-up deadline for next year. But with appeals...

Like everywhere in Florida, Hillsborough County has a lack of affordable housing.The issue has grown more acute due to a growing population, deep federal…

Governor-elect Ron Desantis’s environmental transition team is focusing on water quality and supply. But when climate change didn’t come up in the team...

Days after entering hospice care, Former Florida House Speaker and Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell has died. He was 72. Wetherell had...

Incoming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has named a state representative who is a member of the Army Reserves to be his veterans' affairs director.

Last week, Tampa Bay Rays Principal Owner Stuart Sternberg said a plan to build a new baseball stadium in the Tampa neighborhood of Ybor City was dead.The…

More than 540,000 Floridians are living with Alzheimer’s Disease, and health officials say that's expected to increase by more than 30 percent in the next…

Florida's largest health insurer has seen a 45 percent drop in opioid prescriptions since it stopped paying for OxyContin. It has been almost a year...

A decade-old billion-dollar deal in which the state would have bought out the nation’s largest sugar cane producer and restored the Everglades’ historic...

Eating disorders affect millions of Americans every day. Binge eating, anorexia and bulimia represent some of the more severe cases, but emotional...

Florida’s Department of Education will have a new Commissioner at the helm in Republican former House Speaker Richard Corcoran.

If implanted medical devices fail, patients and their insurers usually have to pay for repairs. That financial responsibility falls to them even when the problems were solely with the devices.

The 2020 elections are still nearly two years away, but races continue to take shape in the Tampa Bay region.Rep. Jackie Toledo, R-Tampa, and Rep. Wengay…

Congress told the VA to expand its caregiver program to include pre-Sept. 11 vets, but the VA has failed to meet a deadline in the law.

Child abuse increases the day after school report cards are released — but only when kids get their grades on a Friday, a study led by a University of...

When Hurricane Irma slammed across the Lower Keys as a Category 4 storm last year, it hammered what passes for affordable housing — mobile homes and...

A former Florida elections official is asking a federal judge to reinstate her after she was removed from office by Gov. Rick Scott. Embattled Broward...

Videos and photos of police officers responding to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 show them saving at least two victims by applying...