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Almost seven years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Florida lawmakers are finalizing a settlement plan. There’s still some distance between the...

A bill to prevent greyhound tracks from giving their racing dogs steroids is moving forward in the Senate. Members of the greyhound industry say without...

House Speaker Richard Corcoran says changes to the Senate’s plan to buy land south of Lake Okeechobee make the proposal better, but he’s refusing to...

A bill that requires county elections officials to notify Florida voters if their signatures on vote-by-mail ballots don't match their registration forms…

Florida legislators are considering whether to keep secret searches for university and college presidents.A House panel approved a bill Thursday that…

The body of a 17-year-old Tampa girl who was missing since March 28 was found in Flatwoods Wilderness Park Friday morning.Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward…

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran is praising the state’s Supreme Court after it formally barred retired judges from weighing in on cases after new...

The House and Senate are in a stand-off, for now, about a controversial bill dealing with “stand your ground” self-defense cases.

As cigarette makers continue facing a barrage of lawsuits in Florida, state Supreme Court justices this week rejected arguments by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco...

According to a recent study, having a role model at school who looks like you can have large and long-lasting effects.

Looking to curb abusive puppy mills, Hillsborough County commissioners are moving ahead with a proposal to ban the commercial sale of cats and dogs.The…

Florida may drop a long-running legal battle and instead agree to pay millions to homeowners across the state whose healthy citrus trees were torn down in…

The University of South Florida has received more than $260 million dollars in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health. President Trump’s…

The phosphate industry contributes a great deal to Florida's economy, but at what cost?This week on Florida Matters, we’re exploring how the phosphate…

Ten WUSF News journalists were honored in eight categories in the 2016 Florida Associated Press Professional awards contest Saturday night in…

A controversial plan to build a reservoir that would help address damaging water discharges in the Everglades ecosystem is one step closer to being...

It’s spring break and for some kids that means going to the beach or visiting family, but for 40 children and teenagers from South Florida it means...

A bill building on Florida’s anti-human trafficking efforts is now heading to both the House and Senate floors.

Less than two weeks after the House proposal was unveiled , The Florida House is expected Wednesday to take up a controversial pension reform package.

Emergency room doctors are just beginning to study a new kind of casualty in the opioid epidemic — patients who survive an overdose, but walk away with brain damage, kidney failure or dead muscle.

Academic redshirting, the practice of holding kids back a year before enrolling them in kindergarten, has been debated for years. A new article attempts to clear up some of the confusion for parents.

Camping is usually a popular recreation over the Easter holiday. But the state’s wildfire emergency could mean a change of plans for some.All of the…

A controversial pension reform bill that just passed the House is now in the Florida Senate’s hands.

The infusion of 1.5 billion dollars in the state budget to help cover health care for low income Floridians could go a long way toward bridging the...

State lawmakers are trying to assert greater control over boards that step in when local governments or school boards become insolvent. Clearwater...