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Wildlife officials have fitted 30 female Key deer with radio tracking collars amid a screwworm infestation threatening the endangered herd.

A bill to build water storage reservoirs south of Lake Okeechobee was introduced in Florida’s legislature on Thursday, formalizing a controversial plan...

Florida House Democrats protested Republican Speaker Richard Corcoran’s decision to give a platform to a man they said is a racist.

Florida is on the cusp of joining nearly every other death penalty state in requiring a unanimous jury sentence.

An effort to allow liquor sales in grocery stores cleared its first committee Thursday. Lawmakers are one step closer to tearing down the wall that...

Despite the gray skies and cooler temperatures, tens of thousands of people are flooding into Tampa's Bayshore neighborhoods and downtown Saturday for the…

Florida's public universities are being swamped by college students who need counseling.

A federal judge hammered an attorney representing the state during a contentious hearing Friday on an abortion law challenged by clergy members and...

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is looking for the state's best student chef.

A presidential executive order immediately stopping refugees and some immigrations from several Muslim countries is causing confusion at airports around...

Once every twenty years, Floridians have the opportunity to propose changes to the state’s most important document. But some are worried political...

Florida civil rights groups and Democratic legislators are blasting Colorado federal appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination. But not all...

More than 500 refugees were approved for resettlement in the Tampa Bay between July 2016 and July 2017.But more than half of those are on hold after…

Buoyed by strong tourism numbers and population growth, Florida is experiencing a steady but uneven recovery, the Legislature’s chief economist is...

President Trump will be back in Tampa Monday for the first time since the election campaign. Spokesman Sean Spicer says he plans to visit MacDill Air…

After 10 years and 10 plays, an epic production in St. Petersburg will soon take its final bow. With its current production of “Joe Turner's Come and…

Three Florida metro areas had among the greatest increases in home prices nationwide last year.A new report released last week shows that Tampa,…

Scores of individually wrapped heroin packets seized during a Florida drug bust featured a certain famous likeness: that of President Donald Trump.The…

Florida House Minority Leader Janet Cruz says Democrats are working on different ways to help the state’s law enforcement and corrections officers. The...

Republicans are increasingly talking about repairing former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a softening of tone that comes as their drive...

An appeals court Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by gun-rights groups that challenged the city of Tallahassee over decades-old firearms ordinances that...

*The story was updated in the early afternoon to include more people who joined the protest.President Trump's first visit to Tampa’s MacDill Air Force…

President Donald Trump spoke Monday afternoon at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where he addressed the troops of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special…

There’s an effort underway to help local residents rediscover the rich past of one of the oldest communities in Tampa."At least we feel, a lot of times,…

State officials are warning Floridians about scams during tax season.