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Climate change is opening up the Arctic to luxury cruises, including an Alaska-to-New York voyage. The vacation destination takes advantage of warming oceans but raises safety and ethical concerns.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed more than $34 million for Sarasota County projects and plans in the state budget; $20 million of that was meant for a new nursing/STEM facility at the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus.

The surging water from the Kakhovka dam is likely to cause widespread flooding and poses an additional risk to an already troubled nuclear plant. Russia says Ukraine is to blame.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was elected to the post with Trump's support after 15 contentious rounds of votes, said House Republicans will get to the bottom of the investigation into Trump.

The House has approved a spending bill to end a short-lived partial government shutdown. Now lawmakers will begin contentious negotiations over new guardrails for immigration enforcement.

With only two weeks left in the 2018 legislative session, proposed rules requiring generators for long-term care providers continue to await action, in...

Doctors would be limited to ordering a maximum of seven days’ worth of potentially addictive medications for patients with acute pain and would have to...

Donald Trump came into office promising to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something more affordable that would cover everyone. But members of...

U.S. senators from Florida and Alabama are again asking Congress to intervene in their states' long-running "water wars" with Georgia.Sens. Marco Rubio,…

Thousands of Florida teenagers flocked to Tampa this month for their version of the Super Bowl. The annual Florida State Thespian Festival is where high…

"They brought him here today to be with his brother."Those were the words of Richard Varnadoe, 86, who was at last able to put his brother Thomas in his…

For the first time in a generation American astronauts will fly into space aboard a new spacecraft beginning in 2017.But it won’t be a NASA spacecraft.…

Any doubt that Florida’s largest health insurer wants to expand its reach was quashed by its chief executive Wednesday, when he heralded the success of...

The state would set aside $230,000 for bear-resistant trash cans and outreach programs to reduce conflicts between humans and bears, as part of Gov. Rick…

Insurers participating in Florida's new Medicaid managed care program say they've lost $542 million through 2014 and want the state to raise their rates...

After a massive restoration effort, most of Florida has power 10 days after Hurricane Irma knocked out electricity to nearly two-thirds of the state,…

Students are moving in this week to their homes for the school year at the University of South Florida.While there are a number of new halls in "The…

Thousands of consumers risk losing financial aid for health care premiums under President Barack Obama's law unless they clear up lingering questions...

Under a normal schedule, fall sports practices would have started last month, with the regular season beginning August 20.

State economists are predicting that as many as 58,876 children will be dropped from the Florida KidCare program during the current fiscal year, which will run through June.

The giant storm formed over abnormally warm water in the Pacific. And sea level rise makes storm surge even more dangerous to residents of Guam and the Mariana Islands.

The Biden administration is debating how much student loan debt to cancel per person. Who benefits when you cancel $10,000 in student loan debt versus $50,000?

NASA's Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its "hidden kitchen." On the eve of NASA's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.

A little more than half of students attending the state’s VPK programs are deemed ready for kindergarten.

The majority of Amazon's workers in Bessemer, Ala., have voted against unionizing. This means Amazon has withstood the largest union push yet among its U.S. workers.