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After Florida lawmakers failed to address the issue this spring, health officials are advancing an effort to tighten security on the state's…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports prescription pill related deaths in Florida fell sharply in the past few years. State officials have said...

A reporter and photographer from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune took their first trip to Cuba recently. Dance critic and arts writer Carrie Seidman and…

Monroe Circuit Judge Luis Garcia declared Florida's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional Thursday afternoon. He ruled in favor of Aaron Huntsman and...

How much will it cost Floridians to buy coverage next year on Healthcare.gov? Lots of people want to know, but the insurers are keeping the prices...

Health officials say a mosquito-borne illness that had afflicted Floridians who traveled to the Caribbean has now been transmitted within the state. The...

Florida is leading the nation in job growth, adding more than 37,000 jobs this month. The Tampa Bay area has added over 25,000 jobs in the last 12 months,…

In 1980, the Cuban government opened its doors, allowing people to leave the country in a mass exodus that would come to be known as the Mariel Boatlift.…

For the past year The Hechinger Report and StateImpact Florida have taken you into two schools to hear what preparations for Florida’s new Common…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's administration expressed concern in a letter Friday about reports that the federal government planned to send unaccompanied...

Florida's biggest electric providers are asking state regulators this week to let them scale back energy-efficiency programs --- such as rebates for…

An appeals court Monday found that the state Agency for Persons with Disabilities did not properly carry out a law that created a new system of funding…

Florida's trauma drama could be almost finished.With an appeal deadline passing Monday, the Florida Department of Health and hospitals owned by HCA Health…

Early Sunday morning, before the 2,000 passengers from cruise ship disembark, a line of taxi cabs forms outside Port of Tampa Bay Terminal #2 just beyond…

Back in the 1950s and '60s, a group of African-Americans, known as the Highwaymen, sold Florida landscape paintings to locals and tourists on the side of…

With the campaign dominated by a barrage of back-and-forth attacks, Democrat Charlie Crist's lead over Republican incumbent Rick Scott has narrowed in the…

Wedding bells are not ringing yet for same-sex couples in Monroe County. Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones had hoped to apply for a marriage license...

As far as solar energy goes, the Sunshine State is third in the country for potential -- and 18th in actual installation. In Florida, there’s no...

Insurers must pay $41.7 million in rebates to Florida individuals and employers this summer, an amount that far exceeds refunds in any other state,...

A Florida judge is being asked to decide when the state's congressional districts will be redrawn.Circuit Judge Terry Lewis is holding a hearing Thursday…

The car that drives itself. That sci-fi fantasy will be coming to life this weekend, as Audi will be test driving its automated car on the Leroy Selmon…

Fifty years ago Bob Moses organized volunteers to register voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer.And for decades, Moses has been fighting for…

A White House Task Force report says universities are not providing all the resources they can to protect students from sexual violence. We will have a…

A state law allowing elected officials to set up blind trusts does not violate the Florida Constitution's open-government requirements, a Leon County…

Three Tampa Bay-area hospitals have filed notices that they are dropping legal challenges against trauma centers at Blake Medical Center in Manatee County…