Critics see political donations and heavy lobbying by Heritage Property and Casualty as evidence that Citizens Property and Gov. Rick Scott are tapping the insurer’s $6.4 billion surplus for special giveaways to politically-connected companies.
Gov. Rick Scott completed Florida’s election law about-face, signing a bill to reverse changes to early voting laws.
A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict.
From a coast-to-coast bike trail to tuition increases, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed more than $350 million from the state budget, which he signed Monday.
— For 10 years, political pros have taken it almost as gospel that the strongest statewide Democratic candidates are centrists from Florida’s top battleground region of Tampa Bay.
When he signs the state budget Monday, the governor is also expected to approve an extra $65 million for safety-net hospitals like Jackson and Broward Health.
Ana Alliegro, the Miami woman at the center of the federal corruption investigation involving former congressman David Rivera, is living in a small town outside of Managua.
Ana Alliegro, the Miami woman at the center of the federal corruption investigation involving former congre...
Rubio mesmerized hundreds in Tampa with a familiar speech that resonated more strongly than ever amid the l...
A new state law cracking down on gambling prompted the nation’s retirees association to eliminate i...
Julio Robaina and his wife are accused of receiving undisclosed cash payments as interest on more than $1 m...
Gov. Rick Scott is reaching out to an unlikely group — university presidents — to build a ca...
Chile, Florida’s No. 6 export destination for products, was the first Latin American country to sign...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has made job creation his top priority since coming into office, has rejected ...
Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspi...
The House members and their aides refused to discuss details of their immigration bill, but it’s cl...
Legislative analysts flip-flopped on whether lawmakers’ vote on Gov. Rick Scott’s manufacturi...
Gov. Rick Scott, who campaigned on a pledge to shrink the size of government, has until next week to decid...
Gov. Rick Scott completed Florida’s election law about-face, signing a bill to reverse changes to ea...
Critics see political donations and heavy lobbying by Heritage Property and Casualty as evidence that Citiz...
From a coast-to-coast bike trail to tuition increases, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed more than $350 million from t...
When he signs the state budget Monday, the governor is also expected to approve an extra $65 million for sa...
A new state law cracking down on gambling prompted the nation’s retirees association to eliminate i...
Legislative analysts flip-flopped on whether lawmakers’ vote on Gov. Rick Scott’s manufacturi...
Gov. Rick Scott, who campaigned on a pledge to shrink the size of government, has until next week to decid...
Tallahassee has long resonated with talk about our precious, precious school children. Except lately the al...
The state House quietly kept members’ health insurance rates low. How low? Less than 9 bucks a month.
In six weeks, the political campaign for tax dollars to fund a Sun Life Stadium renovation became one of th...
South Florida lawmakers led the charge to give millions of dollars to private tutoring firms, even after re...
A string of unrelated events are highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a u...
Determined to check the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces, a House panel is poised to...
The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so.
When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to...
Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress - a working, producti...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with officials in Oman to discuss their plans to buy a $2....
Los Angeles County prosecutors said Tuesday they'll seek to retry five former officials in the city of Bell...
A look at the 867-page immigration overhaul bill approved Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Even though governors and lawmakers in five Deep South states oppose a plan to cover more people through M...
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