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A group of scientists from states bordering the Gulf of Mexico met in St. Petersburg Wednesday to figure out ways to deal with health problems coming from…

A bill to give better benefits to firefighters with cancer passed a threshold this week: A majority of member of the Florida House of Representatives...

Two suicides in the span of a week involving student survivors of the Parkland school shooting have sparked a new question at the Florida Capitol: How...

"It's great advice to tell people to use a crosswalk, but that's not very useful if the crosswalk doesn't exist," says Tom Ellington of the Pedestrian Safety Review Board in Macon, Ga.

March is National Reading Month, and Sky Zone Tampa is using it as an opportunity to bring literacy to the community.The trampoline gym is hosting a…

Could Florida have something to teach the country about gun control? Federal lawmakers are considering a law that would encourage states to implement...

A committee bill in the Florida house looking to make sweeping changes to the state’s election laws has cleared a key committee stop. A number of them...

Coming after the grim news that two survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre committed suicide this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis and...

The University of South Florida's planned Institute of Applied Engineering will build its headquarters at the re-developed University Mall in Tampa.An…

Twenty-five years ago, Patty Deremer was a little girl in the Chasco Fiesta parade in New Port Richey. Now, she’s the sponsorship chair of the festival,…

Changing the Florida Constitution with citizen-led ballot initiatives could soon be harder under a proposal that cleared a Senate panel Monday on a...

Governor Ron DeSantis has issued a proclamation making April Child Abuse Prevention Month. At a news conference at the Capitol Tuesday morning, the...

A doctor tapped by Gov. Ron DeSantis to become the state’s surgeon general has been embroiled in legal squabbles and investigations while working at the...

The state Agency for Health Care Administration received federal approval to create a housing assistance pilot program as part of the Florida Medicaid…

Under a law now taking effect, the military branches are issuing American-made running shoes, instead of giving recruits an allowance to buy whatever...

A national group is ramping up its efforts to get the Trump administration to open up much of the nation's offshore waters to oil drilling - including…

Best-selling author Rick Bragg has written another memoir about his family, and growing up poor in the hardscrabble back country of Alabama. This time,…

The number of children under the age of four who die from drowning in Florida every year could fill up to four preschool classrooms. According to Florida…

The state Agency for Health Care Administration has backtracked on its decision to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates for therapists who mostly work with…

Florida Gulf Coast University announced its first partnership for its new Water School on Thursday.

The two candidates in the runoff for the next mayor of Tampa met in their first debate since the primary Friday. Former Police Chief Jane Castor and…

The Notre Dame head coach, who's heading to the championship game Sunday against Baylor, has said she won't hire male coaches.

Notre Dame will be looking to join UConn, Tennessee and Southern Cal in winning consecutive national championships during the NCAA era in Sunday night's…

More than 20,000 people packed Amalie Arena Sunday night as Baylor beat Notre Dame to become the new champions in Division I women's basketball. The…

Stephanie Loraine Piñeiro was 17 when she discovered she was pregnant for the second time. She says her parents were livid about her first pregnancy a...