The pushback against Gov. Rick Scott’s effort to create a health-care transparency website appears to be more widespread than state officials previously acknowledged.

While the nation was fixated on the drama surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Floridians were reminded this week that they have their own Supreme Court controversy in triplicate.

Sen. Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, who missed the whole of the 2017 legislative session battling cervical cancer, has had a recurrence of the disease. She wrote in a Friday Facebook post that she will seek hospice care.

This week, freshman U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., unveiled the “Drug Price Transparency Act” which, he insists, will lower drug prices for seniors.

With this week marking the centennial of a German U-Boat sinking the the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa during World War One, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., honored the memory of the 111 Coast Guardsmen, four Navy sailors and 16 passengers including 11 members of the British Navy. 

Following the revelation that the University of Central Florida improperly used operating funds to construct a campus building, the Florida Board of Governors is asking all universities to review projects built over the last decade and report on how they were funded.

Some of Hurricane Florence's hardest-hit victims are getting a close-up look at Florida's heart after the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services delivered thousands of servings of food to storm orphaned people in North Carolina.

The contestants in the Florida chief financial officer battle waded into the guilt-by-association game in full force this week.

Incumbent Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on Monday rolled out a website attacking Democratic challenger Jeremy Ring’s contributors. But the hit also opened Patronis’ own donors to public scrutiny.

In announcing the new webpage attacking Ring, Patronis’ campaign declared its intent was to show his opponent’s “connections to criminals and scandalous donors.”

This week, retiring U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading Republicans on Capitol Hill on foreign policy, scored a win as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed her “Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act” (NICA) without opposition. 

A restriction on fishing for red drum and snook was extended to next spring and will stretch north to Pasco County, as the state continues trying to limit impacts from a red-tide outbreak along the Gulf Coast.