Gov. DeSantis Gets Legislative Support For Environmental Projects
Gov. Ron DeSantis would get nearly all the money he's requested for environmental projects in an initial House budget proposal for next year.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis would get nearly all the money he's requested for environmental projects in an initial House budget proposal for next year.
Florida's felon voting rights restoration bill won approval Tuesday from a Florida House committee, over the objection of advocates who helped get rights restoration placed in the state constitution.
New Florida Governor Ron DeSanits signed his first bill into law on Monday, and it's a substantial one.
Floridians could gain access to cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other foreign countries under legislation approved by a state House committee.
Hookers who've been convicted of prostitution three times, cyberstalkers and inmates who expose themselves to prison workers wouldn't be eligible to have their voting rights automatically restored.
The Florida House is expected Tuesday to start moving forward with a plan that would revamp spending rules for the higher education system, including on construction projects.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody supports a Senate proposal that would give her the authority to file civil actions against local governments that do not fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
With state lawmakers also considering the idea, a political committee has filed a proposed ballot measure that could make it harder to amend the Florida Constitution.
After returning to the Legislature in November, state Rep. James Bush, D-Miami, appears headed toward facing a primary challenge as he seeks re-election in 2020.
Former Florida Governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he thinks a Republican should challenge President Donald Trump in next year's election.
Governor Ron Desantis addressed more than a thousand business and community leaders Friday morning at the Broward Workshop's annual "State of the County" event at the Signature Grand in Davie.
The South Florida man accused of sending mail bombs to prominent critics of President Trump is expected to plead guilty next week in New York, according to the case's docket.
Florida's Republican U.S. senators, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, were divided Thursday about whether to reject President Donald Trump's declaration of a border emergency.
Potential 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz has been making the rounds in South Florida this week.
A proposal to keep the state's tourism-marketing agency open beyond this fall, with no change in funding, moved forward Thursday in the Senate.
