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Many Floridians and other Americans turn to the ER for problems that aren't emergencies, a poll suggests, even though the experience can be unpleasant. Some ERs are striving to change their image.

A wide-ranging education bill dealing with everything from funding for high-performing universities to high-school membership in athletic associations…

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said places where Zika virus is being caught locally should not accept blood donations until there’s a...

A wide-ranging education bill dealing with everything from funding for high-performing universities to school membership in athletic associations was…

Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday signed a series of health-care bills, including a measure that supporters say will help shield patients from getting hit...

An appeals court will hear arguments June 7 in a long-running dispute between the state Agency for Health Care Administration and more than two-dozen...

A disagreement about the pending exit of Florida's longtime insurance commissioner continued Wednesday, as the state Cabinet prepares to again try to...

Patients looking for more transparency in health care costs won’t usually find it on the bill from their medical provider.

The Florida Board of Governors has taken the first steps toward approving a standard search process for university presidents, with a final vote on…

During a conversation about health care recently with WMFE, the chief executives of two major hospitals in Central Florida said making prices more...

A case that could decide the fate of nearly 400 death row inmates in Florida is being deliberated by the Florida Supreme Court.The defendant whose case is…

The extended debate in Congress over emergency funding for a response to the Zika virus is forcing public health departments to cut existing prevention and treatment programs.

Florida has the third largest number of workers affected by a new federal rule to extend overtime benefits so businesses should start preparing now, said…

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case focused on whether the state's new death penalty law is constitutional, and, if so,...

More than a dozen years after a fierce political fight about the state's medical-malpractice laws, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection hosted a brownfields symposium this week in Sarasota. Brownfields are sites considered to be ...

For the second time in a month, a circuit judge has ruled that Florida's new death-penalty sentencing law is "patently unconstitutional" because it does...

Kevin McCarty, Florida's longtime insurance commissioner, is leaving the Office of Insurance Regulation during the first week of July.

Comparing the attack that killed 49 victims in Florida to one that hit San Bernardino, Calif., President Obama calls it "homegrown extremism."

At least four of the Orlando shooting victims had local ties to the Tampa Bay area.The Sunday mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub took the lives of 49 people…

The Obama administration punched a new series of holes in the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba on Tuesday, turning a ban on U.S. tourism to Cuba into an…

Members of the State University System's Board of Governors said Thursday they were disappointed that Florida's newest university will miss the original…

Florida's new death-penalty sentencing process should apply to prosecutions that were already underway when the new law went into effect this month, a...

After years of controversy, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is ending its relationship with Youth Services International, a for-profit firm...

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill that supporters said will help the court system address issues with criminal defendants who have mental illnesses.