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City of Sarasota commissioners have voted in favor of an ordinance to ban Styrofoam and limit single-use plastic straws on city-owned property.Plastic…

Some of Florida's big cats are walking strangely and state wildlife officials need your help to figure out why. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation…

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the White House to increase federal reimbursements from 75 percent to 90 percent for on-going recovery work following Hurricane…

Though tobacco ads have been banned from TV for about 50 years, the marketing of electronic cigarettes isn't constrained by the law. Public health advocates consider that a loophole that hurts kids.

Seven Puerto Rican health care workers say supervisors at a Florida government-run clinic warned them to stop speaking Spanish among themselves or they...

Several large holes in the ground have opened in a Pasco County neighborhood. The depressions may be forming now because the area had consecutive days of…

Numerous films and TV shows have been filmed in Florida through the years, from Burn Notice and Miami Vice to The Truman Show, The Punisher and Scarface.…

Several civil legal aid organizations in Florida have filed a federal class action lawsuit against the agencies that operate the state's Medicaid…

Showers and thunderstorms will become more numerous at times across the Florida peninsula by the end of the week thanks to an approaching tropical…

Florida House Democrats say they’ve rounded up more than enough support to require votes from both Republican-dominated chambers of the Legislature to…

More than 58,000 items will be available on Saturday during Florida’s 2019 unclaimed property auction in Orlando.The items, valued at more than $600,000…

Helen Freund is the new food critic for the Tampa Bay Times, arriving from New Orleans where she was the restaurant writer and food critic for an…

A proposed $248 million settlement has been filed in a decade-old federal court case over defective Chinese drywall blamed for damaging home appliances…

A new command center at Tampa General Hospital is saving the hospital money and reducing the time patients spend at the facility.

There are now 36 ground depressions in the Lakeside Woodlands Community in Pasco County -- that's up from 20 holes on Tuesday. Andrew Fossa, the Emergency…

Gary Ray Bowles, a serial killer who preyed on older gay men during an eight-month spree that left six dead, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at…

Author Gilbert King won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2013 book, "Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America." His…

The majority are Inuit. They laugh about his interest but also take it seriously. One says such talk is "extremely imperialistic and should not be something that we hear world leaders say in 2019."

Illinois health officials said Friday that a patient who contracted a serious lung disease after vaping has died, which could make it the first death in...

Updated 8/24 at 8 a.m.:A white Florida man who told detectives he had a "pet peeve" about illegal parking in handicapped spots was convicted late Friday…

Hillsborough and Pinellas County governments this week continued their investment in the Cross-Bay Ferry between Tampa's downtown and St. Petersburg.The…

After correcting four years of compensation reports for one of the entities she represents, Florida's top gun lobbyist Marion Hammer has been cleared of…

U.S. Fish & Wildlife officials Thursday evening faced a crowd of Keys residents strongly opposed to removing the Key deer from the Endangered...

Analysts say chances are increasing that Florida will enter a recession soon . “Currently, Florida’s probability of being in a recession in the next 9...

Updated 8/26 at 11 a.m.:A tropical storm in the Carribean is expected to strengthen to a hurricane by early next week.The storm formed in the Atlantic…