Marion County dove headfirst into the transgender bathroom controversy, requiring transgender students to go to the bathroom of their birth sex rather than their identified gender.
Last week, the Marion County School Board approved a measure 4-1 requiring its students to use the bathroom of their birth sex.
Gov. Rick Scott has gone West, stopping in Los Angeles in an effort to lure California businesses to the Sunshine State.
The majority of Republican voters finally believe Republican presidential hopeful and billionaire Donald Trump will be their party’s nominee come November.
The Rasmussen Reports poll solidly confirms most voters believe the two likely nominees for the Republican and Democratic Party will be Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The new survey of likely Republican voters found an overwhelming majority -- 89 percent -- now think the firebrand frontrunner is likely to win the GOP nomination.
The Florida Senate is having a facelift, waving goodbye to its 1970s look after spending $5 million in renovations this summer.
High school seniors nationwide have made little progress in mathematics and reading, performing worse in mathematics and about the same in reading on a national standardized test.
A newly-signed law aims to curtail wasteful public school construction spending in the Sunshine State, and it could have a big impact on schools statewide.
When House education budget chair Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, found out Florida schools were overspending on construction costs, he vowed to do something about it.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce is celebrating a big birthday in 2016, commemorating 100 years of representing businesses and the economy in the Sunshine State.
U.S. Reps. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores, and Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, faced off in their first debate Monday evening, duking it out on their paths to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in Washington next year.
Gov. Rick Scott ceremonially signed a bill to help families of law enforcement employees and first responders killed in the line of duty on Monday in Orlando.
The bill, SB 7012, filed by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, and co-sponsored by Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, would provide the beneficiary or family member the fallen officer’s monthly salary for life. The benefits would apply to Florida’s Special Risk class, which includes firemen, correctional officers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, probation officers and other employees whose jobs might put them at risk.
Donald Trump may have won the Florida primary, but the work isn’t over for presidential hopefuls in the Sunshine State. Florida Republicans are only a few weeks away from selecting the 99 delegates who will represent them at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, but the delegates this year have hardly been set in stone.
