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On a recent afternoon at the Sarasota Kennel Club, the track’s grandstand is mostly empty, but for a handful of spectators leaning against a wire fence…

Former University of South Florida St. Petersburg Regional Chancellor Sophia Wisniewska, who stepped down in the wake of controversy following Hurricane…

Florida is seeing a surge in hepatitis A infections and a majority of the cases are turning up in the Tampa Bay area.Three of the top five counties with…

A key elections bill backed by the state’s supervisors heading for final votes. The measure is meant to address issues stemming from the 2018 election...

House and Senate budget chiefs agreed Tuesday to a roughly $90 billion budget deal, but lawmakers will not end the 2019 legislative session on time. The…

Jane Castor took the oath of office Wednesday morning, becoming the newest mayor of Tampa.She addressed a crowd of several hundred people at Armature…

A non-tropical disturbance is expected to approach Florida Thursday and Friday, producing summer-like downpours and thunderstorms across much of the…

Research shows that music therapy in neonatal intensive care units helps infants get released from the hospital early. Experts in Florida helped pioneer…

More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year's mass...

Hillsborough County Clerk of Court Pat Frank has been a public service pioneer since she began her career in the 1970s.Thursday, she announced that she…

The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate agreement. But the bill, which was sponsored by a Tampa…

Hillsborough County was part of a recent nationwide effort to improve schools from the top down, through a project known as the "principal pipeline." The…

The Department of Education is expanding a fix to its troubled TEACH Grant program, giving millions of dollars of grant money back to public school teachers working in the country's neediest schools.

Florida's U.S. senators are increasing pressure on the Trump administration to act on the crisis in Venezuela, calling it a national security matter....

With memories of massive outages after Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Michael and other storms, state lawmakers Thursday gave final approval to a bill that...

With two men who’ve become the faces of Amendment 4 watching from the gallery, Florida lawmakers passed a controversial measure that would require…

Republican lawmakers slipped language into a bill in the final hours of Florida's legislative session Friday that could make it more difficult for…

Florida lawmakers debated a $91.1 billion state budget Friday with bipartisan support for the fiscal year that begins July 1, but must wait until Saturday…

Crediting himself with “changing the conversation on a number of things” during his first legislative session, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday his agenda…

Insurers would be given the green light to sell scaled-back health insurance policies under a bill that the Florida Legislature passed Friday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a proposal would allow public and charter schools to carry guns in the classroom, although many school districts...

State lawmakers over the weekend passed a bill that would restrict local governments from requiring new developments to have units set aside for…

The University of South Florida is officially throwing in the towel on its controversial bull logo barely eight months after it debuted.Joe Hice, USF Vice…

Funding within this year’s budget could help thousands of children get health insurance.The item, added to the budget after a push by The Florida Healthy…

A new program that would allow more Florida students to use taxpayer-funded vouchers to pay for private school in Florida has passed — and is likely to...