The bottom tier of the Republican presidential field sparred in the undercard debate on Wednesday evening as they tried to break out and move up the ranks. 

State representatives who gathered in Tallahassee Wednesday for the official Republican Conference  designation ceremony heard Richard Corcoran, next speaker of the Florida House, talk about a grab bag of education and bread-and-butter issues, but above all, commit to limiting the influence of special interests in the Capitol.

While he is currently running for the presidency and has said he will not seek a second term in the U.S. Senate, a new poll shows U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., would have the edge on potential rivals who are largely unknown. 

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., can expect a fight on his hands if Gov. Rick Scott opposes him for a fourth term in 2018, a new poll shows. 

A new poll shows some of the leading Republican candidates running to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016 remain unknown to GOP voters across the Sunshine State. 

Less than a year to go until Florida Democrats hold their primary to choose their U.S. Senate candidate to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., many voters remain undecided, a new poll shows. Currently running for the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio has said he will not run for a second term in the Senate. 

Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, released a poll on Tuesday which shows a plurality of Democrats -- 39 percent -- in the Sunshine State remain undecided on who to back in the Senate race. 

After being extinguished in the Senate last year, the legislation to allow concealed weapons on college campuses reignited in Tallahassee on Wednesday, where it was heard in both Senate and House committees. 

Six months after the Florida Department of Education launched an investigation into a server attack that left thousands of students across the state unable to take the new Florida Standards Assessment test, the FDOE still has no answers to who was behind the server attack or why it took place.

Almost a year until the Florida primaries and a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate has come out swinging at one of the leading Republican hopefuls. 

Despite a transition to managed care meant to tame huge increases in Medicaid spending, the health-care program for low-income Floridians still threatens to consume almost half of the state's revenue growth, an economist told lawmakers Tuesday.