U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw’s, R-Fla., proposal to create a small business advocate at the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) picked up steam this week as the House Financial Services Committee passed it without opposition.
The committee passed the bill on a 56-0 vote on Wednesday, sending it to the House floor.
Members of the Florida congressional delegation urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to add more protection for Florida panthers, calling on him to create a critical habitat designation for the state animal.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., brought out a bill this week making the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) increase security efforts at airports across the nation and it’s already gaining traction.
In what sounds like a line out of a Jimmy Buffett song, one of the state's soon-to-be medical marijuana purveyors used a helicopter and a landing at a golf course to squeak in minutes before a 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday to prove he had nailed down a requisite $5 million bond.
Bruce Knox, an owner of Lake Mary-based Knox Nursery, was the last of the five cannabis dispensing organizations --- picked by a Department of Health panel late last month --- to post a surety bond required by state law for licenses to go into effect.
A rewrite of the No Child Left Behind act has been approved by the U.S. Senate and is now headed to President Barack Obama for signing.
Florida orange output will drop almost 30 percent from what it was last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) forecast on Wednesday.
Democrats and Republicans alike remain undecided in who they want to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate next year. Currently running for the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio has ruled out running for a second term in the Senate.
If Donald Trump runs as a third party or independent candidate, he would outpace the Republican candidate in Florida, a new poll shows.
Businessman Donald Trump continues to top Florida's Republican presidential field, no matter his recent rhetoric against Muslims and the outcry against it from on both sides of the aisle, according to a poll released Wednesday.
