Slinging possums, eating corn dogs and navigating putrid waters --- all in the dog days of summer --- are just a few of the extremes Florida candidates are going to as they try to emerge victorious at the ballot box.

From his seat on the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., is helping lead the charge on Capitol Hill to protect U.S. elections from cyberattacks. 

Family members whose loved ones were killed during a massacre at a Parkland high school in February slammed the Broward County School board for failing to make schools safe, just one week before classes begin.

Mixed reviews are in for Tallahassee’s number-one “Never Trumper” --- Rick Wilson, who has a new book, “Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever.”

President Donald Trump threw his support behind U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., on Thursday, endorsing the North Florida Republican for a fourth term in the U.S. House. 

A Florida congressman believes his bill giving drug makers to create more generic drugs and spur competition in the marketplace is starting to have a real impact. 

With a recent poll from the American Legion showing one in five veterans uses marijuana for medicinal purposes, U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., wants to ensure they can still apply for executive branch jobs in the federal government. 

In their second and final debate for the Republican nomination for governor, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis clashed Wednesday over President Donald Trump, Florida’s water crisis and campaign contributions.

This year the red tide just won't go away.

Guy Grace, a school-security official whose Colorado community was rocked by the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, was in Davie Wednesday to share school-hardening solutions with a commission formed after this year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.