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Florida resisted implementing the Affordable Care Act. Now, in the absence of the state encouraging people to sign up for insurance on exchanges set up under it, other groups have stepped in.

Police say the man, a Jacksonville resident originally from Serbia, told investigators that a device in his luggage was "supposed to be a bomb, but it's not." The airport was closed for five hours on Tuesday. Travelers were still dealing with delays there Wednesday morning.

After three years of bashing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Republican governors were surprisingly mute on the first day consumers could…

A statewide human trafficking summit focusing on labor and sex trafficking will take place Thursday at the University of South Florida.The Florida…

Houston's Mission Control is still talking to the astronauts circling the globe in the International Space Station. But most other phone lines are down, and NASA says the shutdown could deter launches of other spacecraft and slow repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope if something goes wrong.

They call them the "Bollywood Oscars." And in April, tens of thousands of people are expected to stream into the Tampa Bay area to attend the...

With the space agency largely grounded, employees Karen Nyberg and Mike Hopkins continue to orbit 250 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station. While it's not clear they have all that much to do, their Twitter feeds show they may be getting creative — and perhaps a bit bored.

Hi, I'm Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of The Splendid Table. WUSF brings you the news you need to know -- and the stories you want to hear. Some of this...

The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce is seeking businesses, banks and other organizations willing to extend assistance, freebies and discounts to…

Both the U.S. government and BP have estimates on just how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010. The problem: They reached two different numbers. At stake is up to $18 billion in fines and penalties under federal environmental laws.

For WUSF Public Media Cornerstone Society members Courtenay O'Connell and Michael Sims, one radio just isn't enough. Says Sims, "My wife is such a fan…

Poverty, economic inequality and the education disparity that affects children in poor neighborhoods—they’re three hugely complex and important issues,…

When Florida Governor Rick Scott's administration began an effort to find and purge non-citizens from the voting rolls last year, life-long citizens and…

In 2008, Florida announced the largest land sale in the state's history — to buy hundreds of miles of Everglades land owned by U.S. Sugar. But only a small fraction was acquired. Now, environmental groups are lobbying for the deal's revival before a contract giving the state an exclusive option to buy expires.

Arthur Guilford of USF Sarasota-Manatee doesn't just watch WUSF TV. He lives it."I'm Arthur Guilford. I'm the regional chancellor of USF Sarasota-Manatee,…

There have been a few projects geared to create a renaissance of the rich African-American history that is part of the bedrock of Tampa.The proposed Perry…

The Florida Department of Education is holding three public hearings this week to gather criticisms and support of Florida's new math and English…

All together now: Support for WUSF comes from the law firm of Trenam, Kemker Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O'Neill and Mullis."My name is Hal Mullis. I am with…

The trial began today for the white Florida man accused of shooting and killing an unarmed black teen in November 2012, raising comparisons to the...

StoryCorps is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new book out next week - and a visit to St. Petersburg early next year.David Isay, creator of the…

Scott MacIntyre says his blindness has given him a platform to reach out to and inspire many more people than he could have imagined---millions even.The…

Seventeen-year-old Cali Linstrom is on a mission to rid schools of the epidemic of bullying, an issue that's been at the top of the news recently with the…

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Operation e-Guardian ended this morning with the arrest of 15 people.The operation e-Guardian was launched…

The standard by which a felon is judged to be mentally competent to face execution will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court agreed Monday to hear a case involving a Florida man convicted of a 1978 murder; he has an IQ that's close to the state threshold.

The conversation about Common Core standards hit a fever pitch in Florida last week.Florida’s education commissioner, Pam Stewart, moderated three…