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Six bills from the 2017 legislative session became effective with the arrival of the New Year.

With less of a threat, the state of Florida has discontinued its Zika virus hotline.

FEMA is extending housing assistance for Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria. The extension lasts through March 20. Puerto Rico’s government...

Ciara sobs as she recounts how, as a middle schooler, she helplessly witnessed her mother's downward spiral into drug addiction, an affliction that left...

Treatment for hepatitis C has improved dramatically in the last decade — so much so that it drew one doctor out of retirement to help make sure more low-income patients are cured.

A Seffner man has been charged with murder in the beating death of his girlfriend's 7-year-old son.The Tampa Bay Times reports that 31-year-old Jack…

An appeals court Tuesday rejected a Leon County circuit judge's decision to issue a temporary injunction against a potential trauma center at a St....

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has often criticized efforts to overhaul health care at the federal level, has contended for years that more needs to be...

Cold temperatures are breaking records in many parts of the country, bringing snow to Northern Florida, and sending a chill down the entire peninsula....

The unusual cold slamming the U.S. East Coast is wreaking havoc with wildlife, particularly the cold-blooded variety. Social media has been flooded by photos of downed iguanas and frozen sharks.

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis filed paperwork Friday to formally enter Florida's 2018 gubernatorial race, after landing praise from President Donald Trump and...

Stone crab claws are considered a delicacy by some and for many southwest Florida fisheries, the season is a critical money-making time of year. We’re...

A human trafficking task force operating in Florida could be a national model because it focuses on more than just investigation and prosecution, Deputy...

The native New Yorker came to NPR in Washington, D.C., 40 years ago on what he hoped was an unfortunate but necessary detour. Now, after three decades hosting All Things Considered, he's retiring.

Health-insurance policies would be required to provide coverage for FDA-approved contraceptive drugs without imposing deductibles, coinsurance or co...

As part of Human Trafficking Awareness Month, law enforcement officials and other stakeholders are coming together to make sure Floridians know what to...

Programs that help people sign up for Affordable Care Act plans in Florida will have their funding cut by 81 percent this year.

Florida lawmakers continue to be frustrated with the state Department of Health over its slow implementation of medical marijuana rules.

Florida authorities are charging dozens of people as part of a sophisticated drug-smuggling operation that consisted of spraying synthetic drugs on mail…

A Florida police chief and officers in his department are being ordered by city officials to undergo sexual harassment training following an investigation…

A dead whale shark washed ashore this past weekend in Sanibel Island. Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium scientists say it is not one of the two whale…

Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law has come into play again after an unarmed man was shot to death outside a convenience store in Clearwater on…

President Donald Trump will be in Tampa next week for another "Make America Great Again" campaign rally.The president's re-election campaign says he'll be…

New research shows more promise for using AIDS treatment drugs as a prevention tool, to help keep uninfected people from catching HIV during sex with a...

The democratic frontrunner for Florida Attorney General is calling for an end to the state’s “stand your ground” law following a Pinellas County shooting.