Fresh Take Florida

Some of Florida Lottery’s biggest scratch-off winners have family connections to the stores where they’ve won. Are they tricking the system?

Store owners and clerks, the gatekeepers to potential fortunes, are among the state’s biggest lottery winners.

The mass deportations under the Trump administration have been heavily chronicled, and Florida is among the states with the most immigration arrests and removals.

The most controversial new requirements — that critics say raise serious constitutional issues — include a prohibition on certain political activity by union members and raise the bar in how union certification votes must be conducted.

The clock is ticking as state leaders work to lock in what exactly Floridians would see on ballots if they were to vote on property tax changes.

Elected officials in Miami Beach, Key West, Delray Beach and Fort Lauderdale have all missed their deadline Thursday this week to remove street art.

A new interim president will be named before Fuchs steps down, UF spokesperson Steve Orlando said.

Felipe Zapata Velásquez, 27, was arrested March 28 for driving with a U.S. driver’s license that had been suspended since January 2024 and with an outdated vehicle registration.

Florida's attorney general, James Uthmeier, said he disagrees with a federal appeals court's recent decision upholding the age restriction, passed in the wake of a 19-year-old gunman killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018.

New filings relaunched the landmark legal case seeking to overturn the state law, which bans some social media accounts for teens younger than 16, or for 14- and 15-year-olds without a parent’s permission.

Floridians will vote for a representative in the 6th Congressional District, which runs from St. Augustine to Daytona Beach, and the 1st Congressional District in the Panhandle.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker rejected a request by a consortium of technology companies for a preliminary injunction that would have at least further temporarily blocked the state’s ban from taking effect.