U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., will be one of the two new co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues when the 115th Congress launches next month. 

Hurricane damages in Florida have reached at least $1.59 billion from the two storms that hammered parts of North Florida and the East Coast this year, according to the latest numbers from the insurance industry and the state.

Florida’s 29 presidential electors will head to Tallahassee this week to cast their votes for President-elect Donald Trump. Electors will descend upon the Florida Capitol to cast their votes in the Florida Senate gallery Monday afternoon.

The crowd roared as Donald Trump took the stage.

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday requested the resignation of the state's tourism-marketing leader amid a controversy over an expired $1 million contract with a Miami hip-hop artist whom the governor praised for his "devotion to our great state."

President-elect Donald Trump will make a stop in Orlando for a victory rally and to raise money for the Republican National Committee and his transition to 45th President of the United States.

The unemployment rate rose in Florida in November, moving up from 4.8 percent to 4.9 percent even as Gov. Rick Scott announced the creation of 31,600 new private sector jobs. 

U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., has a simple message for retiring U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., if he wants a rematch in 2018: bring it on. 

Conservative 5th District Court of Appeal Chief Judge C. Alan Lawson -- described in the most admiring of terms as "Justice Antonin Scalia meets Mother Teresa" -- is today Florida's newest Supreme Court justice.

Gov. Rick Scott will leave office in January 2019. But the decision he announces Friday likely will have ramifications long after that.

Scott will name a successor to retiring Florida Supreme Court Justice James E.C. Perry, a move that will almost assuredly mean adding a conservative to the court. It also will be Scott's first chance to appoint a justice, as the court has been made up of the same members for nearly eight years.

"I look forward to announcing my first pick to the Florida Supreme Court tomorrow," Scott tweeted Thursday afternoon.