This week, two members of the Florida delegation--Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan and Democrat U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy--unveiled a proposal to tackle the nation’s opioid problem. 

Ruling against the Florida Department of Health, a circuit judge Friday said an embattled Broward County nursing home is entitled to receive copies of death certificates for people who died across the state around the time of Hurricane Irma.

Debates can’t usually help, but they can kill.

The unemployment rate in Florida stayed at 3.9 percent in March, right below the national average of 4.1 percent, as 13,800 new jobs--12,500 of them in the private sector--were added in the Sunshine State. 

With Miguel Diaz-Canel taking over from Raul Castro as the leader of the communist regime in Cuba, members of the Florida congressional delegation insisted this week that the change of leadership is meaningless. 

Rejecting arguments of school boards across the state, a Leon County circuit judge this week formally rejected a challenge to a controversial 2017 law that included a series of moves to boost charter schools.

For the record, (fill in the blank) declared victory Wednesday in this year’s first televised Democratic gubernatorial debate.

From his perch on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., has introduced a proposal that he says will protect the nation from cyberattacks. 

Gov. Rick Scott announced Wednesday the acceleration of overdue repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee. 

Three of the four Democrats vying to replace Rick Scott as governor of the third-largest state in the nation get their news first from The New York Times, and only one, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, relies on his hometown paper to find out what’s going on in the world.

The insight into who’s reading what was among the lighter moments of an hour-long debate Wednesday in Tampa, the first head-to-head matchup of the four major Democratic candidates before the August primary election.