Congressional hopeful Ken Sukhia beat out his Republican primary rivals in a straw poll held at the end of last week by conservative group Florida Family Policy Council.

The straw poll was held after a debate in Tallahassee on Thursday. Sukhia, who served as U.S. attorney in North Florida under President George H.W. Bush, took 42 percent of the vote with Tallahassee attorney Mary Thomas in second with 28 percent. Dr. Neal Dunn and businessman Jeff Moran are also running in the Republican primary. 

The Florida congressional district is set to radically change after the November elections. Between redistricting, some unexpected retirements and four representatives running for the U.S. Senate, almost half of the Sunshine State’s 27 congressional seats are in play in the primaries or the general election. With that many seats up for grabs, Florida can expect some differences in how it's represented starting in 2017.

The group opposed to legalizing medical marijuana in Florida is back for round two to oppose a constitutional amendment legalizing the drug for medical purposes in 2016.

The Republican Party of Florida has rounded out its final list of delegates it will send to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention in July.

Over 600 people applied to be at-large delegates for the party. On Saturday, RPOF Chair Blaise Ingoglia recommended 15 candidates to be the party’s at large delegates at the party’s spring quarterly meeting in Tampa.

The delegate list includes:

Florida Senate hopefuls were busy raising big bucks for their campaigns during the month of April. Sunshine State News took a look at what the candidates in some of the state’s most hotly-contested Senate seats raised last month.

With all due respect to Kermit the Frog, it's getting easier to be green in Florida.

With more than 3,000 people descending on Central Florida for the nation's premiere cannabis business trade show this week, and a new poll again showing that voters seem poised to approve wide-ranging medical marijuana, it looks increasingly like the state might be going to pot.

The Republican Party of Florida says it has a lot of work to do if it wants to get voters out to the polls this November.

At the party’s spring quarterly meeting in Tampa Friday, the minority engagement committee centered in about the GOP’s presumptive nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and how the party will try to reach out to its constituents in light of inflammatory comments Trump has made on the campaign trail.

Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan, a devout Catholic who's spent more than $7.5 million of his and his law firm's money trying to pass a constitutional amendment to broadly legalize medical marijuana, made a confession of sorts this week at the nation's largest pot trade show.

Morgan's proposal, which narrowly failed in 2014 to capture the 60 percent approval required for constitutional amendments to pass in Florida, will be back before voters in November.

In case you never spotted a character flaw in George Zimmerman, this should cure you: The former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford is trying to auction off online the gun he used to do it.

Florida is at the center of a massive food stamp fraud bust with 22 people charged from allegedly collecting over $13 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by fraudulently trading food stamps for cash.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer, joined by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, among others, announced the charges Wednesday.