Sen. Rick Scott Pushes Prescription Drug Price Drop
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is sponsoring legislation aimed at lowering the costs of prescription drugs and has included price controls as part of his proposal.
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U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is sponsoring legislation aimed at lowering the costs of prescription drugs and has included price controls as part of his proposal.
A legal battle involving one of the nation's most emotionally charged issues continued Tuesday in Florida, as a three-judge appellate panel heard arguments in a long-running dispute over a 24-hour waiting period for abortions.
An effort to put more teeth into Florida's ban on texting while driving continued its Senate journey Monday, after lawmakers stripped out proposals that could have allowed police to pull over motorists for potential distractions such as talking on cell phones, eating hamburgers or self-grooming.
Karen Leicht spent nearly three years in federal prison and three months on probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit insurance fraud in 2010.
A controversial gun-rights proposal that was sidetracked last year in the wake of the mass shooting at a Broward County high school started moving in the Senate on Monday.
A Senate committee on Monday approved a bill that would increase the minimum smoking age in the state from 18 to 21.
Money for a plane for Gov. Ron DeSantis is still up in the air.
Florida's jobless rate ticked up in February for the second straight month, according to numbers released Friday by the state Department of Economic Opportunity.
The House and Senate on Friday rolled out state budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal year, with the plans hundreds of millions of dollars apart and higher than the current year's budget.
A Miami lawmaker on Thursday sent a letter to the head of the state's child-welfare agency demanding to know the steps it is taking to ensure migrant children in a federal shelter in Homestead are housed "safe and free from sexual abuse."
A plan to carry out Florida's voter-approved ban on vaping and the use of electronic cigarettes in workplaces got Senate approval Thursday.
For almost 40 years, no one doubted serial rapist Ronald Stewart murdered Regina Harrison in a South Florida park — not police, not prosecutors and not her family.
Under a new bill passed by the Florida Senate, you will be able to grow fruits and vegetables in your front yards without fear of local government fines.
A North Florida man who's struggled with fibromyalgia for years became the state's first patient to legally buy whole-flower cannabis for smoking Thursday.
The State of Florida is considered a key battleground state when it comes to elections.
A manatee is back in the wild, months after being injured by a boat.
Residents in eastern Sarasota are on guard this week.
A Florida House version of a bill that bans so-called sanctuary cities is now moving forward.
Florida could block teenagers from getting abortions unless their parents agree, under a bill that began moving forward Tuesday in the Republican-dominated House.
For the third year in a row, President Donald Trump has cut federal funding for Everglades restoration in his budget, from $200 million to $63 million.
The family of a woman who was shot by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and subsequently died has secured the services of a civil rights and personal injury attorney.
The tourism-marketing agency Visit Florida would only be funded for three months, while Enterprise Florida wouldn't get any state money as part of a budget proposal released Tuesday by a House panel for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.
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.
The Florida State Board of Education announced Tuesday a cut in fees for state educators.
