State Democrats are gearing up for their time in the limelight -- and a short-lived campaign trail -- as they prepare for the race to replace Florida Democratic Party chairman Stephen Bittel as the head of the state organization.

With President Donald Trump freezing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) proposal to end the ban on African elephant trophies, a Florida Republican who opposed the change cheered the decision. 

With 2.3 million Floridians ready to hit the road for Thanksgiving and Orlando the top destination in the nation for the holiday, gas prices should drop in the Sunshine State in the days to come. 

Four months after the Facebook posting of a disturbing 11-second video showing a shark being hauled alive behind a speedboat, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's investigation of the incident remains incomplete.

National Republicans and Democrats continue to place their bets in Florida as they ready for 2018‘s congressional races. 

Judy Mount says she is the interim chair of the Florida Democratic Party, but party bylaws say otherwise -- and it appears the FDP will actually be without a chair until they meet to select a replacement for Stephen Bittel in December.

This week, U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., was denied membership in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus even as it looks like he will be in another fight to hold onto his South Florida congressional seat. 

It’s deja vu all over again as the Florida Democratic Party is once more looking for a new chairman.

There were reminders this week that governors come and go, but the rituals of the Capitol remain.

Three years after the New York Times descended on Florida to tell the nation Tallahassee law enforcement deliberately, perhaps even illegally, coddled FSU star athlete Jameis Winston and slipped him out of a 2012 sexual assault charge, the NFL is investigating another sexual assault complaint against Winston.