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A Florida State University study links declining bumble bee populations with climate change. The researchers examined three bumble bee species in the...

Florida’s law enforcement, emergency and mental health workers are struggling to cope with a rising tide of opioid overdoses. Lawmakers are looking for...

A Florida lawmaker is calling on the state to overhaul regulations for nursing homes. The push comes after 14 patients died from overheating due to a...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott got an update from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials in Clewiston, Monday about the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake...

The Everglades' python problem is not news to most Southwest Floridians, but what may be is the effects the overabundance of the invasive species may...

Gov. Rick Scott directed agencies Tuesday to begin the process of approving permanent rules that would require nursing homes and assisted-living...

As many as 2,000 obese state employees who suffer from conditions such as diabetes or hypertension can enroll online for a program that provides...

The University of Florida's president is urging students to stay away from a speaking event on campus featuring white nationalist Richard…

Relief is coming to Pasco County’s agricultural community with a Disaster Assistance Session, Thursday, Oct. 12.The Pasco County Cooperative Extension…

Groups in the Tampa Bay area are mounting humanitarian missions to Puerto Rico and holding fundraisers for victims following Hurricanes Maria and Irma.The…

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Rep. Byron Donalds have unveiled their plan to challenge violence and abuse in schools.On Wednesday in…

The head of Florida’s juvenile justice system says a Miami Herald investigation detailing abuses within detention facilities does not tell the full story.

Florida House lawmakers are checking in on a 2016 measure meant to improve mental health and addiction treatment.

Researchers say invasive Burmese pythons are depleting so many animals in the Everglades, mosquitoes there are mainly biting a species of rat that...

Frustrated by failures in Congress, President Donald Trump will try to put his own stamp on health care with an executive order Thursday that aims to...

A memorial to honor slaves and acknowledge the cruelty of slavery could soon be placed on the Florida Capitol's grounds under legislation that won…

A Republican state senator — and funeral director — is suggesting that a South Florida nursing home may not be to blame for 14 deaths that occurred in...

New research from the University of South Florida suggests evacuating nursing home patients before a storm increases the chance of both hospitalization...

Florida health officials are reporting the state's first case this year of the Zika virus transmitted by a mosquito.

The New York Times recently exposed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for his sexual harassment of women for decades. This week, the country’s paper of record…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is predicting this year’s Florida citrus crop will be the smallest since the 1940s . The state is slated to produce...

Hurricane Irma is throwing a wrench in Florida’s budget for the coming year. Lawmakers were already facing a daunting challenge crafting a balanced budget.

In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will "immediately" halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care...

Accusing him of being biased, Florida health officials want Administrative Law Judge John Van Laningham removed from a case involving a medical...

Research by the Brookings Institution shows that poor children do worse in school partly because their families have fewer financial resources, but also…