With Democrats ready to hold their national convention in Philadelphia next week, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton turned to Tim Kaine to be her running mate. 

It wasn't exactly a scripted lovefest. Unless the scripting was done by the folks who put on professional wrestling matches.

The Republican National Convention this week offered drama, shouting, villains and even a little suspected skullduggery. But in the end, Donald Trump was still standing.

Now, Trump faces the challenge of pulling together enough voters to wrest Florida and other critical states away from Democrat Hillary Clinton --- who, it almost goes without saying, was the villain of all villains during the convention in Cleveland.

While Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will play a major role at the convention in her role as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), attention will also be on Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum who will be speaking in Philadelphia.

Donald Trump fired up delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Thursday evening, finally closing a chapter of a bitter primary and sealing his position as the official presidential nominee for the Republican Party later this year.

With Florida orange crops dropping 16 percent over the past year, Florida’s two senators--Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Marco Rubio--are urging the Senate to help out in the fight against citrus greening. 

After six years as St. Lucie County property appraiser, former President of the Florida Senate Ken Pruitt will leave the Property Appraiser's Office in January with an achievement that only 35 of 13,000 assessment jurisdictions in the nation have ever realized. His office has won the highly coveted Certificate of Excellence in Assessment Administration (CEAA).

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz failed to endorse Donald Trump during his speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night.  

To say Donald Trump's closest and most bitter primary rival failed to endorse the Republican presidential nominee Wednesday night is an epic understatement.

Medical marijuana could be available to a select group of Florida patients as early as next week, after health officials gave the go-ahead for the state's first pot dispensary to begin distributing products.

The Northwest Florida operation, known as "Trulieve," is one of six dispensing organizations licensed by the state Department of Health to grow, process and distribute pot that purportedly does not get users high but is believed to alleviate life-threatening seizures.

The Republican Party released its platform on education at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week, highlighting areas the party hopes to prioritize over the next four years. Educational policies in Florida aren't exactly perfect fits to the party's educational puzzle, but the state has been shaped by Republicans, who have tried to make education a top priority throughout the years.