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Lawyers, judges and professors are pushing back against Governor Rick Scott’s decision to reassign a death penalty case. The move comes after the...

As lawmakers debate revamping the trauma-care system, a judge Tuesday rejected a plan by the Florida Department of Health that likely would have led to...

Pledging that it is only a start, a Florida House panel gave a thumbs-up Tuesday to a medical-marijuana proposal castigated by supporters of a...

A bill requiring Florida schools to teach about the dangers of human trafficking is starting to advance in the Senate.

Senate President Joe Negron on Tuesday toned down a wide-ranging water bill intended to protect his district's waterways, as he sought to make it more...

Lawmakers are trying to overhaul Florida’s beleaguered workers’ compensation system, but unions, legal experts and employer groups aren’t happy.

Two bills offering a formal apology to former wards who say they were abused in a Panhandle reform school and creates memorials for those buried on the...

Central Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala is pushing forward with a challenge to Gov. Rick Scott's removal of her from 22 death penalty cases,...

Florida lawmakers are considering an update to the Stand Your Ground law. The state wants to make clear that residents won’t have to wait to be attacked...

"This is the closest we've come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment," NASA says. There are signs of a promising reaction under the surface.

A Senate panel has approved a measure allowing craft distillers to sell more spirits directly. The idea is garnering support from unlikely sources.

With House Republican leaders looking to make major health-care changes, a key panel Monday approved proposals that would erase limits on the numbers of...

The House could vote as early as Wednesday to repeal the "certificate of need" regulatory process for building hospitals, an issue backed by House...

The state Senate is considering a $200 million program passed by the House that would speed up the process for closing underperforming public schools...

A panel of Florida lawmakers began a discussion this week to consider automatically restoring the civil rights of ex-felons who committed nonviolent...

The state is spending $4 million to remove abandoned orange groves across Florida. That’s about four times the budget state agriculture officials had in...

Florida hospice providers are joining a call by nursing homes to preserve the so-called certificate of need process.

Florida Supreme Court justices are considering allowing hundreds of thousands of ex-felons to vote. They heard arguments from Floridians For a Fair...

When a health care provider wants to build a new hospital, hospice or nursing home in Florida, or even revamp and old one, they first have to apply for...

House Speaker Richard Corcoran got his bills, and he got enough Democrats to build a veto-proof majority. The lower chamber has approved legislation to...

TALLAHASSEE — State college presidents on Friday expressed dismay that the 28-school system is being targeted for three-quarters of the cuts in the...

Most shoppers in the dairy aisle probably never give it a lot of thought. But a battle over the labeling of skim milk led Monday to a federal appeals...

More growers, access to treatment for snowbirds and greater flexibility in the relationship between patients and doctors are among the items likely to...

Health News Florida's database of costs for common health care procedures is growing. PriceCheck now contains thousands of entries for health care...

A bill that would eliminate building toll lanes on existing free interstate highways has moved through the transportation committee of the Florida…