South Florida Water Management District reports record rainfall and its water management actions helped promote an above-average breeding season for wading birds.

Florida’s push for year-round daylight-saving time may have a difficult time in Congress, as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says federal lawmakers haven’t lined up in any typical partisan fashion.

Rubio, who is sponsoring the proposal in the Senate, said he’s gotten positive and negative reaction, but the split does not fall along “ideological lines.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office this week urged the Florida Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that allowed a police officer to use the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law after being charged with manslaughter in an on-duty shooting.

Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown’s attempt to get out of federal prison hinges on an ex-juror who said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty of charges related to a charity scam.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is pushing for more gun control, joining up with Connecticut Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal to demand federal background checks on anyone who buys ammunition. 

In the entire 2018 Legislature, only 13 lawmakers objected to HB 1013, the daylight savings time bill.  

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., paired up with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., to round up more than half of their Senate colleagues to urge Poland to do more to help Holocaust victims. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday of a “level of overconfidence” about the security of the nation’s election system heading into the 2018 midterm elections.

A new report from Florida’s school superintendents warns that despite a nearly $100 million increase in funding, there may not be enough money to post an armed school resource officer at each school in the state.

Florida Republican Congressman Brian Mast, representing CD 18 along the Treasure Coast, wants his fellow members of Congress to follow his lead and open offices inside Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities.