Becalmed by a string of relatively uneventful hurricane seasons, a growing army of claims adjusters has found lucrative work ... in sinkholes.

With Congress abandoning plans to vote on taxes before Election Day, the clock is ticking toward Dec. 31 and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

An ambiguously worded state statute could put Florida in the middle of another national controversy this fall.

An all-female contest to succeed state Sen. Jeff Atwater could be one of the Democratic Party's few opportunities to convert a Republican seat.

The Ron Klein-Allen West congressional contest took another nasty turn with the dissemination of a lien supposedly against West's house bearing West's Social Security number.

While Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill tried pandering to gays and lesbians and illegal aliens with controversial add-ons to the defense appropriations bill Tuesday, House Republicans were busy planning for Congress to get serious about the people's business.

A federal plan to tighten ozone rules would more than quadruple the number of Florida counties in violation of air-quality standards and smother 47,769 jobs statewide, industry reports say.

Now that the Florida Supreme Court has given Amendments 5 and 6 a clear run to the Nov. 2 ballot, it's up to voters to decide whether the so-called FairDistricts proposals will make for improved representation in the Legislature and in Congress.

An audit of state Republican Party finances found a pattern of "inappropriate" spending by Gov. Charlie Crist and disgraced former Chairman Jim Greer.

Despite dismissive comments from state and national Democrats, Florida's lawsuit against the federal government's health-care law is getting traction in court.