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The Florida Park Service invites the public to start 2015 outdoors by participating in First Day Hikes. On New Year's Day, many Florida State Parks are...

AAA is once again teaming up with Budweiser, offering its popular Tow To Go program from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day this year. As a last...

The Cuban immigration policy known as "wet-foot, dry-foot" — where migrants who make it to U.S. soil can stay, while those intercepted at sea are...

One of the primary tools that U.S. transportation departments count on to keep roads safe is road salt. But that has meant rising levels of chloride in many northern streams.

The Common Core math standards were largely written by a physics professor working part time in his garage. Now they're in use by tens of millions of students nationwide.

Florida’s minimum wage will be going up Jan. 1, but the increase won’t necessarily put more money in the pockets of minimum wage workers. The 12 cent...

Florida is about to increase the age requirement for children riding in car seats. As of Thursday, the law requires five-point restraints until a child...

American veterans of the Afghanistan conflict are returning to the front lines as part of a program to help them heal.

A lawsuit over a new program that grants personal learning accounts to students with disabilities has been tossed out by a trial judge. The Florida...

Efforts to regulate homeless activities and services in Fort Lauderdale have come under a microscope over the last couple months as advocate Arnold...

NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel fills us in on new spacecraft, new missions, and space triumphs and failures of 2014.

Ohio State advanced to the College Football Playoff championship game against Oregon by beating Alabama 42-35. Earlier, Oregon defeated Florida State 59-20.

What a difference a year makes. With its technical troubles largely behind it, Healthcare.gov enrolled 1.9 million new customers for health insurance...

A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s health care system for impoverished and disabled children violates several U.S. laws. In a ruling Wednesday, U...

After racking up more than $650,000 in legal fees, Florida Gov. Rick Scott is refusing to back down from his drug-testing crusade, objecting on Monday to…

The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) in Tallahassee has just over 300 students, and the waiting list to get in is much longer. Maureen Yoder is one of...

Every six years the Florida court system assesses everything from public access to court independence and looks for suggestions on ways to improve. That…

The space firm will send a supply capsule into orbit, and then try a new way to recover the part of the rocket that carried it. If it works, the cost of going to space could be reduced dramatically.

A 2012 effort to reform the state's "no-fault" auto insurance system has halted the growth of fraud in the system, according to a new state report. But…

With same-sex marriage now the law in Florida, a lot of new husbands and wives will be able to join their spouse's state of Florida insurance…

Back in November, Phil Ammann of St. Petersburg was figuring out what he was going to do for health insurance. He found himself having to select a new...

A legislative scramble to carve up some $700 million dollars tied to Amendment 1 has begun. Months before the start of the annual session, a Senate...

The organization pushing for medical marijuana in Florida got a new ballot initiative approved by the Secretary of State Friday. United for Care...

During their first week back, Florida lawmakers discussed some ways to reform the state’s prison system—currently plagued by allegations of inmate...

Wearing cowboy boots and bolo ties, Steve Schlairat and Ozzie Russ exchanged wedding vows as they stood beside two saddles perched atop bales of hay on a…