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In a sign of increased harmony in the Florida Legislature, top priorities for the leaders of each house - a water bill pushed by House Speaker Steve…

There appears to be early backing by lawmakers to let voters - and not the governor - decide who should run Florida’s Department of Education.On Tuesday,…

Spring is turning out to be film festival season in Florida. The Sarasota Film Festival kicks off April 1. Meantime, the Gasparilla International Film…

The Florida Legislature is getting closer to finalizing its proposed budget, and the State University System stands to pick up a sizable amount of money…

Floridians gave high marks to their hospital stays, but low marks to care in emergency rooms, according to a national poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johns...

St. Petersburg Pride Weekend is here.In its 12th year, the event celebrating diversity in the LGBT community is expanding from four days this year instead…

Monroe Circuit Judge Luis Garcia declared Florida's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional Thursday afternoon. He ruled in favor of Aaron Huntsman and...

In 2014, nearly 1 million Floridians enrolled in a health insurance plan on HealthCare.gov. Under the Affordable Care Act, most Americans had to buy…

The Florida Department of Transportation is the latest state agency to lose its leader, after Governor Rick Scott secured his re-election. Ananth Prasad...

Nationally, Florida tops the charts for drowning deaths for children under five. That's why the Tampa Bay Rays and the YMCA partnered again this summer to…

Tampa Electric announced Tuesday the utility will build the largest solar project in the Tampa Bay area.It is planned to be 25 megawatts, with the…

Hurricane Matthew has made landfall in western Haiti.The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the Category 4 storm made landfall around 7 a.m. Tuesday near…

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to investigate a sewage spill in St. Petersburg.

A St. Petersburg teacher was surprised with an award and a $25,000 prize during an all-school assembly Thursday.Lukas Hefty, a science and math…

They're beautiful - and they're deadly. And they're here. Lionfish are infesting waters around Florida, and there might be one tasty way to stem the tide…

A planned reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee could take shape more quickly thanks to an Army Corps of Engineers decision.

While former Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Lawrence Tynes continues to recover from a near-fatal MRSA infection picked up during training camp, his…

The 1,700 student veterans at the University of South Florida received an early Veterans Day present Friday from President Judy Genshaft.She released a…

You may need some napkins for this one. Today we all scream for what may be the coolest holiday of the year, National Ice Cream Day.

Whether they’re offering predatory car loans or trying to sell burial services at the VA National Cemeteries – there are scammers who prey on active-duty…

Officials are not releasing as much water from Lake Okeechobee as they did during last year’s rainy season.

Florida Sen. Bill Nelson today filed a bill that would extend the moratorium on oil drilling off Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast. The move comes the day…

The deadline has been extended a day, to Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Julia Nesheiwat, hired by Gov. Ron DeSantis in August as Florida's first chief resilience officer, is reportedly going back to the federal…

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services opened an investigation in May 2019 into the “We Build the Wall” charity, after consumer complaints that were initially submitted to the office of Attorney General Ashley Moody.