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Two telecommunications companies contend in a new lawsuit that the administration of Gov. Rick Scott is flouting the state’s public records law.

Florida is still grappling with the pill mill crisis of four years ago. But with the problem of too many prescriptions receding in the rear-view mirror...

One of the world's largest fertilizer makers is settling a massive hazardous waste lawsuit for nearly $2 billion to help clean up pollution and upgrade...

The Florida Supreme Court on Friday lifted a stay of execution for a Death Row inmate who argued that the state's lethal-injection method would violate...

A new report by federal investigators says Florida has consistently underperformed other states in using federal mortgage assistance money to help...

A Florida Senate panel on Wednesday demanded answers from a state Department of Health official about how many special-needs children have recently lost...

A University of South Florida football player has been arrested and suspended from the team for allegedly shooting the exterior of a campus residence hall…

With Florida facing another cut next year in a key hospital-funding program, Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, said Wednesday it "remains to be...

Governor Rick Scott told the state’s media executives Wednesday he wants to continue setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars to lure businesses to...

Under orders from an administrative law judge, the Department of Health on Friday held a hearing on a controversial new method of determining...

Florida Senate staff are using a random computer system to decide which Senators will have to run for re-election next year or get more time to stay in...

Florida may replace the statue of a Confederate general at the U.S. Capitol.A Florida House panel on Wednesday endorsed a bill calling for removal of the…

A proposal that would allow concealed-weapon permit holders to bring handguns onto college and university campuses continued moving forward Wednesday in...

A 2014 survey found that almost 20 percent of the households using the Feeding Tampa Bay food bank were either veterans or active duty military.The Norman…

Today, the Florida Department of Health announced the five dispensing organizations approved to provide patients with intractable epilepsy and people with…

The state Agency for Health Care Administration asked the Florida Supreme Court this week to take up a dispute about whether a Baker County hospital can...

The number of health care providers complaining about the state’s Medicaid insurers is on the decline.

Kevin McCarty, the state's longtime insurance commissioner, said Tuesday he is leaving the job to explore "other career opportunities."McCarty guided the…

Gov. Rick Scott on Monday said he will push a series of proposals targeting "price gouging" in the hospital industry, including a proposal that would...

Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet began discussions Tuesday on the future of the shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a former state-run…

Despite pleas from his family members, Gov. Rick Scott today turned down a request to release from a prison a central Florida man jailed for firing a...

Reacting to heated outcry from its members, the Florida Bar Board of Governors on Friday unanimously killed a proposal that would have allowed…

It's been fifteen years since Florida's voting machines sent a presidential election into turmoil. And it's been seven years since Hillsborough County got…

Nobody thought the Legislature's latest attempt at crafting new Senate districts was going to be easy.But this week's intraparty Republican fighting at…

A set of proposed districts for the state Senate passed a key committee late last week on a party-line vote, even as a fight over the future leadership of…