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We've all been there: an appointment downtown lasts longer than you were expecting. Your only options are to duck out early to feed the parking meter, or…

After initially rejecting a proposal from Amazon, Gov. Rick Scott just announced he reached a deal with the company. It could bring almost 3,000 jobs to…

Former Orlando Health patients may have to help repay the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after a federal audit discovered the hospital...

Senate K-12 Education Committee Chairman John Legg is following through on a plan to revamp Florida’s early learning programs. The committee unanimously...

Florida officials are asking the Seminole Tribe when it plans to end card games at its casinos and the tribe has responded—with a request for mediation.

With a series of legal challenges still hanging fire, environmental groups are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reject Florida’s...

Florida Keys officials have approved a framework for county roads that need to be adapted to rising sea levels.

Presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton visited Tampa Friday, in the wind up to her party's convention in Philadelphia.Several thousand people waited in long…

Potential insured losses from Hurricane Irma in Florida have crossed the $5 billion mark.

Governor Rick Scott was in Tampa Tuesday to unveil Florida's latest tourism numbers and he used the Florida Aquarium as the backdrop to his…

The Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative held the grand opening for the Community Housing Solutions Center on Thursday. What makes this different from…

An Illinois woman was forced to give birth in her truck, mere minutes after being discharged from an Indiana hospital.

Berthe Morisot was a contemporary of Impressionist masters such as Degas, Monet, Renoir and Manet. Now she is getting her due with a retrospective exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and her paintings are the source of some modern literary fiction.

At 70, Rosario del Real was still selling Mexican paletas. After his neighbors bought his entire stock, they raised enough money for him to retire.

In 1851, two chess masters sat down for a practice game in London. What should have been a throwaway game intensified and was quickly dubbed "the immortal game." David Shenk, author of a new history of chess called The Immortal Game, describes the historic match.

Florida's Attorney General says the CDC violated the law in prohibiting cruise ships from sailing during the pandemic.

Dog and cat adoptions climbed in 2020. Pets have been constant companions — easing our grief and fears. Now it's our turn to ease dogs' separation anxiety, as we head back out into the world.

The creation of the electronic spreadsheet transformed industries. But its effects ran deeper than that.

No Child Left Behind is here to stay, but some states will have more flexibility in how the law is implemented, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says. Michele Norris talks with Spellings.

The threat posed to coastal areas by tsunami flooding gained new attention after the Indian Ocean catastrophe that killed 200,000. Now scientists say a huge tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest in 1700 -- and it may happen again.

It's been three years since the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was founded. With billions of dollars at its disposal, the fund has attracted criticism, especially from the United States, over how it uses the money. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

Canada's budget also includes billions for new housing and measures to help Canadians trying to get into the market.

In neighborhoods throughout New Orleans, black men don Indian costumes they worked on all year -- suits they carefully stitch and bead by hand. Like much of the city, the "Big Chiefs" have mixed feelings about celebrating Mardi Gras just months after Hurricane Katrina took its devastating toll.

British Petroleum, operator of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield, says it will try to keep part of its production running while it replaces corroded pipes at the facility. An oil leak Sunday had forced BP to slash output at the field, America's largest.

At least 70 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded in a deadly suicide bombing at a Baghdad mosque. A bomber struck as worshippers left the Shiite Buratha mosque following afternoon prayers. Reports describe at least two explosions, one inside and one outside the building.