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...

Florida consumer sentiment dipped in March for the first time in 2026, as Floridians reported weaker views on major purchases and the national economy even while remaining somewhat more positive about their own finances. The University of Florida’s consumer sentiment...

On the heels of flipping two formerly red seats in Florida last week, the Democratic National Committee launched a voter registration program during a midterm year for the first time. The program underway includes several events statewide, including in Miami,...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation authorizing the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport as President Donald J. Trump International Airport, following approval of the measure by the Florida Legislature earlier this year. The legislation passed both...

Democrat Gay Valimont announced Monday that she is running for Congress in Florida’s 1st District, opening a new campaign against Republican U.S. Rep. Jimmy Patronis in one of the state’s most reliably conservative seats. Valimont, a Gulf Breeze-area Democrat who has...

Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been found guilty of 25 of 27 ethics charges by a congressional panel. The three-year probe into charges of stealing millions in federal relief funds, some routed into her congressional campaign, is not over...

The Florida Board of Governors on Thursday approved Florida State University’s (FSU) authority to enter into a long-term agreement with the City of Tallahassee to transfer city-owned Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare hospital assets to the university, moving forward a...

State Senator Shevrin Jones on Thursday endorsed former U.S. Rep. David Jolly for governor, with Jolly’s campaign casting the move as a sign of growing Democratic momentum after what it described as historic special election victories in Florida. In a statement...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday warned National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell via letter that the league’s "Rooney Rule" and related diversity hiring policies violate state civil rights law and must no longer be enforced on...