Less than two weeks to go in the presidential election, Florida is the most important battleground with four new polls showing a close contest. With early voting already having started, the candidates continue to work the Sunshine State and win its 29 electoral college votes.
While state debt has declined 9.5 percent over the past five years, debt for Florida's state universities has risen by 41 percent, according to a report reviewed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet.
State debt has fallen by $2.7 billion in that period, for a total debt of $25.5 billion at the end of 2015. In the same time, university debt has risen by $1.1 billion, for a total of $3.8 billion, the state Division of Bond Finance report showed.
Floridians are making their voices heard as they head to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2016 elections.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., doubled down in their opposition to a United Nations effort downplaying Jerusalem’s Jewish and Christian heritage.
Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet agreed Tuesday to purchase the multi-faceted 11,027-acre Horn Spring property, located within Leon and Jefferson counties.
Fracking, a dispute about a campaign sign and an attempted political comeback have heated up the battle for a North Florida Senate seat in a key swing district.
The outcome of the race between state Rep. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, and former state Sen. Rod Smith, D-Alachua, could help Democrats in their effort to chip away at the Republican Party's majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, Republicans hope to hold onto the seat as part of their legislative dominance across much of North Florida.
Donald Trump brought his grassroots campaign to Tampa Monday evening, luring thousands of enthusiastic supporters who had come to see the controversial Republican presidential nominee -- clearly their hero -- make his final push to voters. His overriding message? Bring the election home.
“With a victory in November, everything will change,” Trump told a cheering crowd. “We will accomplish so much for our country that we all love.”
The vicious ads portraying a digitally altered David Jolly with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may be no more. On Monday, U.S. Rep. David Jolly’s Democratic opponent, former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, finally said it was time for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to take down ads trying to tie his opponent to Trump in Florida’s 13th Congressional District.
Hillary Clinton continues her lead over Donald Trump in Florida in a new poll released Sunday.
Congressman Patrick Murphy has been painted by Republicans for months as a privileged, party-boy scion of a wealthy South Florida developer.
Emails and ads blast the 33-year-old single congressman as having used his father's connections and money to attend elite private schools, start a small business, secure a seat in the U.S. House and bankroll a run for the U.S. Senate.
