This week, President Donald Trump signed into law a North Florida Republican’s proposal changing veteran higher ed funding to allow more benefits to the surviving spouses and children of military personnel killed in the line of duty.
Members of the Florida congressional delegation weighed in after President Donald Trump spoke to the nation on Monday about a new strategy in Afghanistan where the U.S. has been engaged in military operations for 16 years.
Amid a national debate about monuments and statues, a South Florida lawmaker renewed his push Monday for a likeness of Mary McLeod Bethune --- an educator and civil-rights activist who founded what is now known as Bethune-Cookman University --- to represent Florida in the U.S. Capitol.
State Sen. Perry Thurston, D-Fort Lauderdale, proposed a resolution (SCR 184) to have Bethune replace Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith as one of Florida's two representatives in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
The South Florida Water Management District has been closely monitoring a tropical low pressure system that could bring above-average rainfall to South Florida starting Tuesday, Aug. 22, and lasting most of the week.
Candidates are starting to line up across Florida to run for office in 2018 but one big name will be sitting on the sidelines next year.
While gas prices traditionally increase in the second half of August, motorists across the Sunshine State saw prices at the pump decrease slightly in recent days.
State Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, expanded her portfolio in Tallahassee last week, the latest up in what has been somewhat of a roller coaster political career.
This week, even as he continues to criticize President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., is going to bat for one of the president’s top causes: tax reform.
It's been more than 150 years since Florida Gov. John Milton killed himself, a week before Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered in one of the final battles of the Civil War.
Gov. Rick Scott’s top priority -- jobs -- once again made headlines in Florida Friday after the governor announced businesses created more than 1.4 million private sector jobs since he took office seven years ago.
