Medical marijuana advocates are furious over a new House proposal they say will severely limit both the availability and marketability of a life-saving drug in Florida.

Looks like Tallahassee Mayor and gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum has found himself in hot water once more over illegally using his government email for personal and campaign use. On Thursday, the State Attorney’s office officially announced it was opening a probe into the issue.

The full Senate is prepped and ready to take up Senate President Joe Negron’s $1 billion higher education bill this week. Under the proposal, SB 2 -- called the  “Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2017” -- state universities would be required to block tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state full time students by 2018.  

National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer said it's too early to declare gun-related bills dead after an influential Miami senator this week appeared to shoot down a number of high-profile proposals.

"Everything is alive until it is killed by a vote of a committee or on the floor," Hammer, a past president of the NRA, said in an email Wednesday. "My job is not to wring my hands and whine, my job is to work hard for law-abiding gun owners and never quit. That's what I intend to do."

One species, the Burmese python, is wreaking havoc on the Everglades, and if left alone much longer, it will change the balance of nature in the delicate ecosystem perhaps forever.

U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., continued to show he will be a force on the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee last week as his bill giving Congress more oversight of wasteful spending in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) passed the committee without opposition. 

Two state lawmakers want Florida to officially apologize for widespread abuses at the infamous Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.  

Two Florida congressmen--Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Alcee Hastings--have teamed up on bringing out  the “Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act," a proposal banning the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption. 

The Democratic primary field for the 2018 gubernatorial race will be a little less crowded -- on Thursday, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn announced he would not be running for the job despite being widely rumored to make a bid next year. 

Under the defense appropriations bill that cleared the U.S. House this week, a clinic at the University of Central Florida (UCF) is getting more funds to help veterans and first responders battling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).