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A new law could be in the works to regulate so-called “sober homes” in Florida. At a meeting attended by hundreds of residents in Lake Worth, Assistant...

Gov. Rick Scott visited the Polk County phosphate manufacturing plant on Tuesday, where a sinkhole has spilled contaminated water into the Florida…

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced an emergency rule to ban a type of synthetic drug that she said has caused multiple deaths in...

The U.S. Senate has again blocked a bill that would have provided funds to help combat the Zika virus.

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida is expanding its services for transgender people. It will now offer hormone replacement therapy for...

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida is expanding its services for transgender people. It will now offer hormone replacement therapy for...

Students perform better in school and have fewer discipline problems when a father or a male role model is engaged in a child's education.That’s the…

The Tampa Housing Authority announced this week that it was approved for a federal grant that will help poor Floridians get better jobs.The $2.5 million…

Florida’s death penalty has been in a state of limbo this year.

With Zika cases climbing to 921 in Florida, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday advanced a federal spending bill that includes $1.1 billion in funding to...

12-year-old Christina Clark takes medical marijuana.Her mother Anneliese Clark uses it to treat the seizures her daughter has had since she was three…

A multi-state bus tour pushing for tougher gun legislation came to St. Pete Thursday morning.The "Vocal Majority" tour is led by former astronaut Mark…

It’s been about three years since Edward Snowden became a household name, when the National Security Agency contractor leaked 1.5 million classified…

Forecasters in Miami say Matthew has strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean.The National Hurricane Center says Matthew now has…

With Florida businesses facing a 14.5 percent increase in workers' compensation insurance rates, state Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and a key...

President Barack Obama will be at the University of South Florida on Wednesday to talk about the Affordable Care Act.

After making two lobbying trips to Washington, D.C., and authorizing $61.2 million in emergency state spending, Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday he is glad...

This week, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein made two stops in the Tampa Bay area. On Wednesday night, she stopped in Tampa's Ybor City and on…

It's homecoming week at Pasco County's Wiregrass Ranch High School. Students were expected to come in costumes, such as Superman one day this week. Three…

Regency Beauty Institute has joined the list of for-profit school closures.The national cosmetology school closed all 79 of its locations, including one…

Hurricane Matthew, a potentially devastating Category 4 storm, swirled across the Caribbean toward Haiti and Jamaica, where residents frantically stocked…

A peer-reviewed study found that the sea was rising 60 percent faster than the U.N. estimated. It means that low-lying cities may need to prepare for more severe floods than had been expected.

Florida State University head football coach Jimbo Fisher recently penned a letter in praise of Tallahassee. The note was originally written for The…

Just because it's cold doesn't mean we should have to give up delicious tomatoes. The "buy-local" movement has spurred a boom in greenhouse grown winter tomatoes in cold climates from Jackson Hole, Wyo., to Madison, Maine. And it uses less water and less land than conventional methods.

Today marks the end of another busy hurricane season. It was more active than predicted, with 19 named storms and 10 hurricanes. But the weather outlook…