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Tampa City Council members continue to oppose Mayor Bob Buckhorn over the creation of a Civilian Police Review Board.Council members said the current…

State health officials are nearing a decision on who will get to grow medical marijuana in the Florida. Meanwhile two lawmakers are hoping to expand...

The Florida Senate will likely jettison the Confederate battle flag from the chamber's official seal.The Senate Rules Committee on Thursday voted…

Tampa Bay is experiencing a tourism boom, with a 13 percent increase in outside visitors. New figures show the industry brought in $329 million in taxes…

To be nominated for speaker, Kevin McCarthy would have needed just a majority of House Republicans' votes, but getting through a vote with the full House would have been a much higher hurdle.

A group of scientists from Sarasota is in Alaska to investigate the effect of spilled oil on marine life. And it may have implications for how scientists…

A doctor who says she is “dedicated to the natural treatment of cancer” has been ordered to appear before the Florida Board of Medicine on Friday to...

Scientists say they have extracted ancient DNA from the skull of a man buried in the highlands of Ethiopia 4,500 years ago that supports the theory that…

A coalition of Tunisian workers, business owners, rights activists and lawyers won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for intervening at a crucial time to…

Florida’s senators want to drop the confederate flag from the chamber’s seal. The proposed rule change passed committee Thursday unanimously.

Here's details of the upcoming event from the Tampa Bay Estuary Program:1. Tampa Bay is the largest open-water estuary in Florida, encompassing nearly 400…

With recent shootings on college campuses in Oregon and Arizona, Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh has received plenty of questions…

Florida lawmakers are hoping to continue moving a bill forward aimed at changing Florida’s minimum mandatory sentencing rules. It comes on the heels of...

Northeast Florida residents are getting confused by a flier that’s showing up in their mailboxes. The mailer from a national, Democratic-leaning group...

State Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam wants another $8.5 million next year to help fight a deadly citrus disease, as Florida's orange crop was…

The chief of the Florida Department of Children and Families told lawmakers Thursday his agency is making progress at carrying out reforms but still has...

A doctor accused of giving a toddler a fatal dose of an unapproved drug was declared “very, very dangerous” at a meeting of the Florida Board of...

You might not want to ask The Ringling International Arts Festival Curator Dwight Currie how many mountains he had to move to make this year's RIAF…

In Brigette Kinney’s design class at Ada Merritt K-8 center in Miami, one of the key concepts is editing and revising ideas after getting feedback.Her 8th…

Republican Congressman David Jolly of St. Petersburg recently introduced legislation that would hire fishermen to collect red snapper data in the Gulf...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida’s Sarasota Chapter sued the city and its police department recently. The suit is on behalf of six...

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) is meeting with citrus growers in Lakeland today and will likely hear how citrus greening and the Oriental fruit fly are taking...

Nneka Campbell spent the third anniversary of her daughter's death at a hearing at the Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee -- to honor, she said...

President Cecile Richards said accusations that the organization illegally profits from tissue provided to researchers have "nothing to do with our fetal tissue donation compliance process."

A new poll shows that a majority of Floridians think that ride sharing services should be regulated. The fifth annual University of South Florida Nielsen…