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Now that Cuba has an embassy again in Washington, D.C., consulates could be coming to serve its people, most of whom live in Florida. Miami and Tampa have…

The Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park was the center of an outcry in late 2013, when the state held a hearing on a plan to place a Union memorial…

The championship Tampa Bay Lightning is losing one of its own -- not to another hockey team -- but to the National Football League.The Lightning's CEO Tod…

Former Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll has described her exit from office more than two years ago as a "knee jerk reaction" by Gov. Rick Scott.Now, Scott will…

In about two weeks state lawmakers will gather in Tallahassee to redraw Florida’s congressional borders. And the scope of those changes is turning...

Even before selecting five nurseries to become Florida's first legal pot producers, Department of Health officials will face a challenge from at least...

It’s not every day you meet a 10-year-old who frequents words like “perseverance” and “self-control” in their vocabulary. But if you catch Sammy Gillespie…

Just six months ago, Gov. Rick Scott stood onstage outside the state Capitol basking in his hard-fought victory as he began his second term.Scott boldly…

At one point, the Schultz Center had state funding and a big, multi-million dollar contract with Duval County schools to help teachers improve their…

At the First Presbyterian Church of New Port Richey, 5-year-old George Blowers IV snaps together pieces of a toy pirate ship with the help of a Red Cross…

Lawyers for Death Row inmate Jerry Correll on Monday backed a decision by the Florida Supreme Court to send his case back to a circuit judge, after...

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is refusing to fold on its push to continue hosting blackjack and baccarat at most of its casinos, but Gov. Rick Scott's…

Two teens missing at sea had strayed from the agreed-upon boundaries for their fishing trip, the stepfather of one of the boys said Tuesday, as the Coast…

Nationally, Florida tops the charts for drowning deaths for children under five. That's why the Tampa Bay Rays and the YMCA partnered again this summer to…

Southern governments at the state and local level have been reassessing the confederate battle flag. Tuesday Walton County took a middle path,...

The nation's respite from accelerating health care costs appears to be over. Spending on health care will outpace the nation's overall economic growth...

For the second time in little more than a year, a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a controversial Florida law that restricts doctors from asking...

Univita Health, which gained control of the entire Florida Medicaid home-care market a year ago, has suddenly lost all of its HMO contracts. The Florida...

Influential Tallahassee insiders --- and a former lawmaker who is the grandson of one of Florida's most-renowned citrus barons --- have banded together...

Two Republican lawmakers Monday filed proposals that would allow people with concealed-weapons licenses to carry guns on college and university campuses,…

A circus tent collapsed when a severe storm raked a northern New Hampshire fairground Monday, killing two people and injuring 15 others, authorities…

Florida Senator Marco Rubio said Planned Parenthood should have its federal funding cut. In an op-ed published Monday, the Republican Senator and...

Gov. Rick Scott on Monday directed the state Agency for Health Care Administration to audit at least some contracts between hospitals and health...

In the past 10 years, the global blueberry crop has tripled. Yet the big, round commercial blueberry is a fairly recent innovation. It was created by breeders exactly 100 years ago, in New Jersey.

The Legislature will begin its special session next week, but drafting of the base map—the session’s starting point—has already begun. Voting rights...