Gov. DeSantis Downplays Chances Of Offshore Drilling
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday downplayed growing concerns that President Donald Trump is putting Florida's coastal waters back in play for oil exploration.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday downplayed growing concerns that President Donald Trump is putting Florida's coastal waters back in play for oil exploration.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is making her second trip to Florida as a presidential candidate.
In two of the highest-profile issues of the 2019 legislative session, the Senate on Wednesday is slated to take up proposals designed to bolster school safety and build or expand three toll roads.
A campaign about free speech on Florida college campuses is being backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and public university presidents.
The Florida Supreme Court said Friday it will hear arguments in a dispute about how much the Broward County School Board could be forced to pay to parents and victims in last year's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A Chinese woman who was arrested after she talked her way into Mar-a-Lago last month has been formally indicted.
Drugs from Canada could be imported into Florida if the federal government agrees, under a bill that passed the state House on Thursday.
More than five months after Florida voters approved a ban on workplace vaping, the issue is on the way to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials aren't aborting pursuit of the operational command of President Donald Trump's Space Force, despite a report Florida isn't on the U.S. Air Force's short list of potential bases.
Florida lawmakers have passed a new anti-Semitism bill in the House which cracks down on discrimination in public schools and universities statewide.
Nearly 14 months after the Parkland school shooting, state senators on Thursday moved toward passing a wide-ranging school safety bill that would include allowing classroom teachers to serve as armed school "guardians."
A pair of sales-tax "holidays" for storm preparation and back-to-school shopping and a tax cut on commercial leases dominated a package that advanced Thursday out of a key House committee.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed the state's elections chief to begin a process to address the availability of Spanish-language ballots and Spanish-language voter assistance.
The Florida House is expected Thursday to approve a bill that would revamp a controversial insurance practice.
Time's running out on reaching a gambling deal during this spring's legislative session, but Senate President Bill Galvano said Wednesday he's "encouraged" by the status of talks between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Senate's lead negotiator.
A heat advisory begins at 11 a.m. Wednesday for metro Broward and Miami-Dade counties and will last until 6 p.m.
Fire crews were forced to battle the blaze from outside the home while the man was taken into custody without incident.
Fort Lauderdale police said they responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 1300 block of Northwest 13th Court Wednesday morning.
In one call, a caller is heard screaming through tears while pleading with dispatchers for help, while another repeatedly begs for an ambulance.
The mother, who identified herself only as Chrissy, said the assailant approached them from behind and began yelling at her son.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested on drug possession charges in Alabama after police say they pulled him over for erratic driving and found marijuana and meth in his vehicle.
Amid simmering tensions between the U.S. and some NATO allies over Iran and Greenland, President Trump is tightening bonds with Turkey.
Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk's murder case are seeking to convince a judge they have enough evidence to try the man accused of killing him and seek the death penalty.
President Trump held separate calls with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending the war.
These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today.
The likely Republican candidate for governor, Congressman Byron Donalds, said he would vote for it, but as he told CBS Miami's Jim DeFede, if it does fail, they will tackle the issue again next year.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has avoided talking about both topics with opponents calling him "the most corrupt attorney general Florida has had."
On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closing of Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration detention center that was the subject of numerous lawsuits as well as allegations of abuse.
The 29-year-old attorney is hoping to stand out from the pack by going after young voters.
More than two decades after voters were promised a new facility to treat people with mental illnesses, rather than warehousing them in the county jail, the Miami-Dade County Commission gave final approval on Tuesday to open the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery.
A recall has been issued for frozen blueberries sold at Publix stores in Georgia, Florida and other Southern states after 12 people became sick, the FDA says.
A new Florida law requires drug prescribers to complete sickle cell training, aiming to improve care and address stigma faced by patients.
Former NFL running back Chris Johnson announced that he was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in a "Good Morning America" interview.
Gallup found that only 49% of Americans were "cost-secure" last year, with concerns about medical bills and prescription costs rising across income groups.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
The Empire State Building lit up in blue for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding Friday night.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married as they celebrated their wedding with hundreds of guests Friday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated to 20 local and national charities ahead of their wedding Friday.
Ticket reseller StubHub abruptly canceled customers' tickets to World Cup matches, costing them thousands of dollars, a lawsuit alleges.
Carín León sees the World Cup as something that pulls different cultures together.
