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A Senate Panel Tuesday approved a bill allowing concealed weapon permit holders to openly carry their guns. But with a couple of powerful special...

Florida is on the way to eradicating the largest outbreak of Oriental fruit flies in the state's history, an agriculture official told a Senate panel…

Protesters are running out of time to stop Florida’s first legal black bear hunt in more than twenty years. More than 2,500 hunting permits have been...

Hillsborough County officials have tentatively approved a $400,000 loan to Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry.

Independent pharmacies are getting pinched by reimbursements for generic drugs that aren't keeping up with rising prices. Drugstores blame the middlemen who manage companies' drug benefits.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday approved a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to expand the use of solar energy, moving the state one step closer…

The head of Florida’s child welfare agency says despite several reforms, his agency failed in preventing the latest high profile child deaths.

Florida Senate staff are using a random computer system to decide which Senators will have to run for re-election next year or get more time to stay in...

Hunters for the first time in more than 20 years will trudge through Florida woods on Saturday to legally kill black bears, a contentious wildlife…

A day after trying unsuccessfully to fire the college's president, Florida A&M University Board of Trustees Chairman Rufus Montgomery resigned on…

There are no federal laws in this country that prohibit undocumented students from enrolling in college. But few of the students can afford it. Now, one online college is offering them an option.

The Florida Department of Children and Families is teaming up with the University of Central Florida to get more social workers with a four-year degree...

The Seminole tribe of Florida says it’s making progress in negotiations to extend part of a gambling agreement with the state. But the tribe is also...

UPDATE: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the final count for the hunt was 298 bears. Florida ended its first black bear hunt...

Most county health departments no longer offer services to pregnant women. But on Florida’s Space Coast, the opposite is true: The county health...

Representatives of those in Florida who want to opt out of standardized testing in public schools were out in force at Wednesday's Board of Education…

A bill aimed at reducing instability for foster children has started to move forward in the Florida Senate and would require the child-welfare system to...

An Orlando drug maker plans to lay off as many as 400 workers in January. Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation is consolidating services to South...

Take a delicious appetizer or a sinful chocolate dessert and pair it with a Georgia O’Keefe poppy or a Rembrandt portrait and the result is the “Food +…

The Tampa Bay Rays have turned down the the city of St. Petersburg's proposal that would allow the team out of its Tropicana Field lease for an exit…

In July 2014, Ellen Engelson's leg broke spontaneously, weakened from radiation treatments years before. She lives in Key West, so she went to the...

At about 12:30 on Thursday afternoon, Dynamic Air Flight 405 was taxiing on the north runway of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. It...

A Florida judge has dismissed a civil case against Valencia College’s ultrasound technician program. Three students alleged they were “browbeaten” to...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tried to jump-start his presidential bid in his home state Monday. In the campaign lately, he's been battling his political protege, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Southwest Florida International Airport began nonstop flights to Cuba on Monday. Choice Aire is the first airline to offer this service for the airport.