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The state is looking to prescribed fires to clean up the massive amount of timber left after Hurricane Michael. Tall Timbers’ Wildland fire scientist,...

The rising use of biometrics by private companies is pushing Florida lawmakers to ensure consumers are aware and protected when giving up their...

The Republican–controlled Legislature will be tasked with an unexpected job: deciding whether to allocate funds for environmental causes championed by...

A Tampa-based medical institute has closed its doors abruptly, laying off more than 500 employees nationwide.

When authorities busted what they say is a multimillion-dollar human-trafficking and prostitution ring in Jupiter last month, law enforcement spoke out...

Burned fields. Cut down trees. Obliterated fencing. Thousands upon thousands of muddy tracks from foot traffic. A small-scale drought.Those were just some…

People who are homeless and those who earn lower incomes came to receive food, clothes and other social services at University Mall in Tampa on…

Thirty-nine Florida hospitals will get less money from Medicare this year because their patients had high rates of infections or other complications.They…

Lawsuits over the way drugmakers have marketed opioids are already putting a dent in companies' reputations. Litigation has forced the release of internal documents that are shifting the narrative.

Saying the need for health care outpaces Florida’s physician workforce, Rep. Cary Pigman on Tuesday swayed members of a House panel to approve a bill...

Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized last year for not having a health care platform while he campaigned for the state’s top job.

Authorities in Fort Myers say they're trying to find out who knocked down a controversial bust of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.The News-Press reports…

Therapists who work with autistic children in the Medicaid system are having problems getting required state credentials, according to providers.The issue…

A new study by University of Florida researchers questions the accuracy of the criteria used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify…

A Hillsborough County public health initiative received a $50,000 grant this week as part of the national "Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge."The…

The announcement Wednesday afternoon follows decisions by many other countries to ground the planes in the wake of Sunday's deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight.

The vice mayor of Port Richey has been arrested on obstruction charges.Terance Rowe had been serving as acting mayor since former mayor Dale Massad was…

Mulling a run for president as an independent, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said in a speech at Miami-Dade College Wednesday that his presidency...

In their first full action of the 2019 legislative session, Florida lawmakers — many of them grudgingly — ceded to a demand by Gov. Ron DeSantis and...

The decades-long Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts, which started in 1948 and is still going, paved the way for a lot of what we know about heart…

The message of former Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz is clear: Americans are tired of partisan politics.He told a group of business owners at a…

A House panel on Thursday approved a proposed repeal of the state’s certificate of need program for hospitals, nursing homes and hospices.

Lawmakers are pushing forward with plans to continue carving up millions of dollars voters more than four years ago directed to be spent on land and...

(updated Sunday 10:00 p.m. with latest applicant)Friday was the deadline for people to submit their applications to become the next president of the…

Florida watchdog TaxWatch has released it’s assessment of the Florida College System. Their research found the schools raise wages for their graduates...