David Jolly’s campaign announced Thursday that state Sen. Brian Nathan is endorsing Jolly’s bid for governor. Nathan said he backed Jolly because of a shared focus on the economic pressures facing Floridians, including housing, health care and insurance costs. In...

Everglades Restoration is on track to be completed five years ahead of the original schedule as all federally funded contracts are now executed, Gov. Ron DeSantis says. In what Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Alexis Lambert calls “one of the...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier petitioned the U.S. Census Bureau this week to change how it conducts the next national headcount, arguing that errors in the 2020 Census cost Florida at least one congressional seat and an additional Electoral College vote. The...

Florida’s economy is expected to continue growing through 2029, but at a slower pace than in the years immediately following the pandemic, according to the University of Central Florida’s  (UCF) Winter 2026 Florida & Metro Forecast released this month. The report...

Florida’s average gas price dropped by 18 cents over the last week, but drivers shouldn’t bet on it staying that way, according to the latest report from AAA. In a departure from what drivers have seen since Operation Epic Fury launched in Iran, the latest stats...

Colorado State University (CSU) researchers are forecasting a somewhat below-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2026, citing the expected development of El Niño conditions that typically suppress storm formation in the basin. In their initial seasonal outlook,...

The Tampa Bay Rays are seeking $1 billion in public funding to build their new ballpark, the club announced on its MLB site. The planned ballpark would be at Hillsborough College’s Dale Mabry campus and is projected to cost about $2.3 billion, with the Rays paying...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Thursday that his office has opened an investigation into OpenAI and its chatbot, ChatGPT, citing concerns about child safety, public safety and national security. In a video statement and accompanying post on X,...

Florida lost more than 20,000 jobs over the last year, according to the latest numbers released this week by the Florida Department of Commerce. Of the ten major industries included in the report, eight lost jobs in January, the most recent month available for...

A plan for mid-April budget negotiations is still up in the air after legislators failed to agree on a budget during the regular session. Senate President Ben Albritton said in a memo to senators Wednesday that there will be no agreement on the budget ahead of a...

Several of Florida’s public universities boasted nationally ranked graduate programs Tuesday after U.S. News & World Report released its 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings, with the results showing strengths across education, medicine, business, law and public...

David Jolly’s campaign said Tuesday that it raised $1 million in the days following Democrats’ March 24 special election victories in Florida, part of a broader fundraising push that the Democratic gubernatorial candidate says has generated more than $5 million since...

Florida officials will now have power to designate groups as terrorist organizations under a bill signed into law Monday. House Bill 1471 allows the Chief of Domestic Security at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to make a foreign or domestic terrorist...

Florida business leaders remained broadly confident in the state’s economy in the first quarter of 2026, with executives reporting strong expectations for investment, hiring and sales over the next six months, according to a new survey from The Florida Council of 100....

Drivers in Florida have gas prices above $4 per gallon for the first time in four years with crude oil prices rising almost 60% since the Iran conflict began, AAA says. Second-term Republican President Donald Trump put out a strongly worded warning on social media...

A new Emerson College Polling survey suggests U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds has emerged as the \ Republican front-runner in Florida’s 2026 governor’s race, while Democrats remain largely unsettled and a sizable share of voters are still undecided in both the primary and...

Florida TaxWatch said in a new report published on Thursday that Florida’s rising housing, health care and property insurance costs are making the state increasingly difficult for residents to afford, even as broader inflation pressures have cooled from their 2022...

Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, also vice chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, was found dead at her home in what police are calling a domestic violence incident. Her husband, Stephen Bowen, was arrested Wednesday and charged with premeditated murder and...

Florida’s SAVE Act was signed into law Wednesday, cementing stronger voter identification, election protections, and candidate transparency. Most of the main provisions of the law will be enacted in January and will not impact November’s elections, but a few parts of...

Florida businesses exported a record $78.9 billion in goods in 2025, up $6.4 billion, or 8.9%, from 2024, according to a Wednesday announcement from FloridaCommerce and SelectFlorida. State officials said the total marked the largest export sales year in Florida...