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A preliminary hearing was held Thursday in the case of Naika Venant, the 14-year-old girl who broadcast her suicide on Facebook Live from her Miami...

Florida is looking toward solar energy as a solution — not only for its energy problems but for its economic issues as well. Though it is the third most...

Officials say unseasonable rainfall and poor conditions caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon contributed to a poor wading bird nesting season in...

Miami-Dade County officials are monitoring four zones in the Miami area where the Zika virus spread through local mosquitoes.

Florida juries would have to unanimously decide that defendants convicted of capital crimes should be put to death for the sentence to be imposed, under...

Saint Petersburg Rep. Kathleen Peters has filed legislation to increase mental health treatment. It adds certain mental health and substance abuse...

NPR and dozens of member stations are searching for public statements on Twitter and Facebook, on lawmakers' websites and in interviews with public media or other news organizations.

The medieval era often comes alive through books or movies, but once a year, the time of the renaissance becomes tangible in Tampa.The site of the Bay…

One in three Floridians get their drinking water from the Everglades. But the “River of Grass” has long been in peril.This week on Florida Matters we’re…

(originally aired March 14, 2017)The University of South Florida is 61 years old – and believe it or not, that’s pretty young compared to many of the…

A pair of University of South Florida athletic teams are getting ready for post-season play.The USF women's basketball team returns to the NCAA Tournament…

After battling for years over how to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, Florida lawmakers landed on a compromise. Instead of expanding...

U.S. Sugar Corp. says it would honor a previous agreement putting land south of Lake Okeechobee toward Everglades restoration. U.S. Sugar staunchly has...

Did you know it’s worse to vandalize a public telephone than deface a Veterans’ monument in Florida? As one of the most populous states for veterans,...

After more than a year of uncertainty, Florida is again poised to begin executions and prosecute death penalty cases after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law...

Legislation banning sanctuary city policies is moving through Florida House committees. The proposal requires cities fully cooperate with federal...

The U.S. Coast Guard in St. Petersburg was one of several agencies busy helping boaters in the choppy waters off Florida's west coast on Tuesday.Seamen…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott , who urged President Donald Trump to move quickly on a health care plan, is sidestepping questions on a Republican health care...

A House budget panel Tuesday approved a proposal that would send $2.462 million to the University of Florida for research about issues such as the...

A former chief judge says the number of future death penalty recommendations will likely drop now that a unanimous jury recommendation is required....

The price tag for Florida’s class size amendment is now at $34 billion. The state has spent that much since the measure was put into the Florida...

Four years after Darren Rainey died in a prison shower, the Miami-Dade prosecutor decided against charging any officers. Since the 1960s, the mentally ill have increasingly been housed in prisons.

A controversial measure that would allow liquor to be sold in grocery and retail stores is expected to go before the full Senate on Tuesday.The proposal…

In a case stemming from a law that requires HIV-infected people to inform potential sexual partners about the disease, the Florida Supreme Court this...

Some students in the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine experienced the "luck of the Irish" this past Friday, as they got…