The Florida Department of Health has cleared part of the area of downtown Miami impacted by the Zika virus, Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday.

A group vehemently opposed to Florida’s cross-state rail expansion from Orlando to Miami graded state lawmakers on their position to All Aboard Florida in a report released Thursday. Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida (CARE FL), a group opposing AAF, ranked local, state and federal lawmakers and political candidates on their positions on the  $1.5 billion project which will run from Orlando to Miami with various stops in between.

While the lazy days of summer wind down to a close and Florida students prep to head back to school, one important aspect of the learning process may be absent before school even begins.

Drivers beware: Florida has the worst drivers nationwide, according to a new in-depth analysis from SmartAsset.

Sitting in traffic in various parts of Florida from I-95 to the I-4 corridor can be rage-inducing for many drivers. Highway driving often turns into a brush with fate in the Sunshine State, where accidents and near-accidents occur every day.  “Florida drivers are the worst!” drivers exclaim, speeding off. 

Florida ranks in the top 10 states nationwide for school-system safety, but trails behind on school-system quality, according to a new report.

Mosquitoes are now transmitting the Zika virus in Florida, Florida officials confirmed Friday. 

Long gone are the days of colleges requiring applicants to submit results from SAT subject tests. A new report has found fewer than a dozen U.S. colleges and universities now require all applicants to submit results from those tests, waving goodbye to a major component of past college admissions. 

Florida’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened up its doors this week in Tallahassee and business is already off to a good start. 

The heiress of Florida’s favorite grocery store, Publix, has dumped $800,000 into the campaign to fight medical marijuana, heating up an already intense battle over legalizing the drug in the Sunshine State. 

State election records show Publix founders, the Carol Burnett Family Trust, donated $800,000 to Drug Free Florida earlier this month. Drug Free Florida is leading the charge to squash a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana. 

Is Alan Grayson having the worst day ever in Florida politics? On Tuesday, POLITICO released a story saying the Florida congressman had allegedly abused his wife for over two decades. Grayson’s wife, Lolita Grayson, told POLITICO she had called the police on her husband a total of four times -- at least two times in Virginia and two more times in Florida.