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Florida may agree to spend $200 million on an ambitious "emergency" plan to shift students away from chronically failing schools to charter schools run by…

City leaders in Sarasota will consider a resolution to support legislation that would give smaller Florida cities the ability to regulate or ban plastic…

More Americans are living longer and surviving chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer but that’s led to rising number of neurological...

It’s the heart of wildfire season in Florida, and more than 90 percent of the state is in a drought. The National Drought Mitigation Center classified...

While the class lacks a "household name" like Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, the 2017 inductees into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame are a varied…

With the proposal drawing opposition from business, insurance and labor groups, a Senate committee Monday approved a bill that would revamp parts of the...

After a rough start, a Florida Senate education panel has managed to move a major testing bill forward. The proposal is a mix of two separate testing...

The Florida House okayed a bill to limit the sales of nonnative animals by pet dealers. The Bill hopes to discourage nonnative sales altogether.

A bill requiring Florida schools to teach about the dangers of human trafficking is starting to advance in the Senate.

The state of Florida came a step closer Tuesday to formally apologizing for the abuse of hundreds of children over the course of a century at the…

Florida may again try to require mandatory drug testing for some welfare applicants despite legal battles that halted a previous program.

A change in how "stand your ground" self-defense cases would be handled in the courts moved closer Tuesday to advancing out of the House, despite...

Senate President Joe Negron on Tuesday toned down a wide-ranging water bill intended to protect his district's waterways, as he sought to make it more...

The OneOrlando Fund for Pulse victims’ families and survivors is officially closed and no longer accepting donations. A second distribution of more than...

A group of top economists and innovators met in Palm Beach Monday to sound an alarm: radical change is coming to the American workforce.

Lawmakers are trying to overhaul Florida’s beleaguered workers’ compensation system, but unions, legal experts and employer groups aren’t happy.

The fate of a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing appears sealed now that a powerful Republican is calling it quits.

Self-driving cars – are they the road to the future or pie in the sky? This week on Florida Matters we’re revisiting a discussion about the promise and…

There are no national or state statistics that track police shootings. But a Tampa Bay Times investigation has collected records from Florida's four…

This story was updated on April 6 at 12:20 p.m.St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman today filled in city council members on the "Baseball Forever" plan to…

The head of Audubon Florida says he thinks Everglades advocates will support changes to legislation for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee.

A bill that would shift a key burden of proof in "stand your ground" cases was approved Tuesday by a divided House, with Republicans saying it would...

Governor Rick Scott isn't waiting for the federal government to decide the future of the Affordable Care Act. His administration is proposing sweeping...

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is prepared for a major security operation, with not one but two world leaders in town this weekend. Palm Beach...

House lawmakers voted unanimously to establish statewide standards for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft. Nick Evans has more.