THE LEGISLATURE
State goes easy on deregulation
Milder legislation to deregulate certain industries is moving through the House and the Senate, but Florida architects are not happy.
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The experience begins when you leave behind your car and 21st century Marco Island for a time thousands of years ago when the Calusa built an important religious center on the island.
Milder legislation to deregulate certain industries is moving through the House and the Senate, but Florida architects are not happy.
Critics charge the Legislature is targeting poor people — from requiring cash welfare recipients to pass a drug test to making it harder for people to keep unemployment benefits.
When basketball coach Cleve Roberts took a Miami Norland team to play at Miami Jackson Senior High a few years ago, they encountered a new $70 million facility with shiny glass and fresh paint.
As the Florida Legislature pushes business-friendly tax cuts, local governments are being left with the bill, with billions of dollars slashed from their bottom lines.
What would you do if you won the $325 million Powerball jackpot? That’s what a lot of people across Florida and 41 other states are asking themselves after the jackpot for tonight’s drawing grew by another $15 million.
Democratic and independent voters have diluted GOP voting clout in 3 Miami congressional districts held by ...
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It’s a light-day at the Capitol: Both the House and the Senate are not in session, and there are no ...
Critics charge the Legislature is targeting poor people — from requiring cash welfare recipients to ...
Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the...
It’s a light-day at the Capitol: Both the House and the Senate are not in session, and there are no ...
Moments after legislators take the final vote in their congressional and legislative maps, the Democratic P...
In their despair, people who care deeply about public education in Florida sometimes get a little carried a...
Catholics Days continues at the Capitol, culminating with Red Mass of the Holy Spirit program at 6 p.m. Not...
While holes in state gambling laws threaten payments from the Seminoles, legislators rejected regulators...
Former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson will plead guilty to tax-evasion charges stemming from secre...
The House budget proposal includes special allocations for a trio of colleges in north and central Florida.
Gov. Rick Scott’s Facebook page is intriguing because the comments to a question about the Florida L...
Authorities say an unemployed 58-year-old man killed his sister and elderly parents at their home in southw...
About 150 people at the University of South Florida will be tested for tuberculosis after a student is beli...
Looking for a wild-and-crazy time at college? Don't sign up for Justin McDaniel's religious studies class.
With less than a month left to wrap up their work, Republican lawmakers are split over how much money the s...
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No tickets matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number, so the jackpot rolled over to an est...
Swimmers are being advised to stay out of the water at four South Florida beaches.