Ron DeSantis

The service helped low-income residents travel across county lines for essential medical care.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state's fiscal year 2026-27 budget on June 29, and it took effect July 1. The budget allocated just over $63 million to Florida's state parks.

Florida put two inmates to death hours apart on Tuesday, marking the first time since 2017 that a state has scheduled two executions in a single day.

Mack, a senior chancellor with the Florida Department of Education from 2019 to 2023, led the state’s career and technical education initiatives and heavily supported Gov. Ron DeSantis’ parental rights policies.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is recommending Henry Mack, a former vice chancellor in the state's Education Department who has been overseeing the federal Employment and Training Administration.

Dennis Sochor, convicted of murdering Patricia Gifford in 1982, apologized several times to her family and thanked his own loved ones for their support before the deadly drugs began flowing.

The state requested additional time to respond to the Council on American-Islamic Relations federal lawsuit as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement intends to first issue regulations to implement the law.

The last prisoner strapped to a table in Florida’s death chamber was 74 years old — the oldest the state has executed in modern times. The next two scheduled for lethal injections are older still.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration brought the lawsuit in 2023, when Joe Biden, a Democrat, was President, arguing Congress had unconstitutionally delegated its power to private accreditation agencies.

On July 1, the ACLU of Florida filed a federal lawsuit challenging the domestic terrorist designation the DeSantis administration applied to the Muslim civil rights nonprofit.

He spoke after the anti-terrorism law passed during the 2026 Florida legislative session became effective on July 1.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bipartisan plan to fund prison upgrades and said lawmakers tied it to correctional officer pay raises in a "D.C. swamp game." The move also wiped out those raises. Here's what you need to know.