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According to state health officials, the number of new positive COVID-19 tests continued to decline Monday, bearing out a downward trend that began at the beginning of the month.

The positivity rate for new cases was at its lowest level since the end of January.

We examine the impact COVID-19 has had on students in Florida during a special report starting Sunday afternoon at 3 on WUSF 89.7, followed by a conversation about the series on Florida Matters, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

Death figures typically lag a few weeks behind cases, so it’s possible the numbers will start to decline later this month if downward trends for new positive tests continue.

It's the latest honor for Goodman, whose quick thinking was credited with helping to keep the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection from escalating even further.

Mark Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and is a longstanding member of the right-wing extremist group the Oath Keepers.

Two customers who bought $6 worth of Barilla pasta say they were duped. They thought they were buying products made in Italy. What they got was made in Iowa and New York.

Officials say a 6-year-old boy and a man in his 20s were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed a car into a group of people at a bus stop in a largely ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlement neighborhood.

County Comptroller Phil Diamond said tourist development tax collections for September were more than $24 million, a 48.6 percent increase over the same period in 2021.

After published reports that it was banned, Pinellas County is reviewing "Ruby Bridges," which chronicles a 6-year-old's school integration in New Orleans during the 1960s. It will not be shown again this year at one Pinellas elementary school.

The end of Round 8 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest has finally arrived. We've read through more than 6,000 stories, and now our judge for this round, novelist Luis Alberto Urrea, has picked his favorite.

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation has raised $15 million over the past three weeks for its emergency fund. The Entertainment Community Fund has received over $6 million since the WGA went on strike.

Alex Anzalone's parents were at Raymond James Stadium to watch their son in the Lions' 20-6 win over the Bucs. They were among about 50 people affiliated with a Naples-based church who were in Israel when war against Hamas broke out.

The Pinellas County Commission will vote Tuesday on a plan to build a new stadium for the Rays as part of one a redevelopment of the Historic Gas Plant District.

Earlier this week, Taiwanese-American attorney Grace Meng won the Democratic primary for New York's newly redrawn 6th Congressional District. If she wins the general election in November, she'll become New York City's first Asian-American member of Congress.

The Office of Public Counsel, which represents consumers in utility issues, filed a notice that it was appealing regulators' approval of the increases, as did the groups Florida Rising and LULAC Florida.

A steep decline in advertising is forcing a historic shakeup in digital news and social media, and leading some to imagine navigating the internet without the likes of Google or Facebook.

NPR must lay off 10% of its workforce to address an advertising shortfall of about $30 million, CEO John Lansing says. Lansing says marketers are nervous about the economy.

David Dye, who steps down as full-time host of World Cafe this week, lists his favorite records that have come out during the program's 25 years on air.

Hurricane Ian trampled over 5 million acres of agricultural land in Florida. For small, family farmers, the recovery is a long season, a brutal winter, fruitless.

Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit.

WUSF News Director Scott Finn and WFAE News Director Greg Collard reflect on their coverage of the national conventions. This is republished from…

Pennsylvania's Sen. Rick Santorum has long been considered to be the Senate's most endangered Republican. But polls show him closing the gap with Democratic candidate Bob Casey Jr. Political onlookers are wondering whether the turnabout is a case of Santorum gaining -- or Casey faltering.

Consumer prices in January were up 7.5% from a year ago, the biggest annual gain since 1982. That may seem like a lot for those under 40, but older folks have lived through even sharper price hikes.

Deaths and injuries from guns in the U.S. have increased for years, mirroring the 1990s - the last time gun violence was considered an epidemic.