The South Florida Water Management District -- caught up in a legal tangle that involved 2012 Martin County commissioners and Martin environmental activist Maggy Hurchalla who advised them -- approved a settlement Wednesday with the owners of the Lake Point Restoration project in western Martin County.
Businessman Paul Spain hopes the third time’s the charm as he has launched another bid to serve in Congress.
Former State Sen. Greg Evers died suddenly and unexpectedly Monday evening in a car crash, causing a wave of reactions from throughout the state.
Grappling with the meaning of online friendship, a state appeals court Wednesday rejected a request to disqualify a Miami-Dade County circuit judge from a case in which a lawyer is one of the judge's Facebook friends.
The 10-page decision by the 3rd District Court of Appeal is at least the third time Florida appellate courts have faced similar questions, including a 2012 ruling in which another appeals court ruled that a judge should be disqualified because of being a Facebook friend with a prosecutor.
House Speaker Richard Corcoran says it’s high time for Florida to end public financing of political elections.
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., continued his efforts on behalf of the Florida panther this week, urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to continue to protect that animal.
Splitting on party lines, members of the Florida delegation continued to offer their take on President Donald Trump’s speech on Monday in which he proposed a new direction for American military operations in Afghanistan.
Former state Sen. Greg Evers, a Northwest Florida Republican and fierce fighter for Second Amendment rights, died Monday. He was 62.
Florida's business-recruitment agency isn't giving up on marketing to executives just because its budget has been slashed.
But it might not market to as many.
In scaling back marketing efforts after a cut in state funding, the public-private Enterprise Florida has outlined a $3 million marketing plan for this fiscal year that will reduce national newspaper ads and limit what the agency does at Major League Baseball spring-training games and with NASCAR.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will follow in President Donald Trump’s footsteps as the Sarasota County Republican Party’s “Statesman of the Year,” at an event held this fall.
