A Tallahassee judge blasted the Florida Department of Education and several school districts in Florida for their failures to follow state law when it came to promoting students to the fourth grade without taking the state’s standardized test.
Submitting a public records request for the South Florida Water Management District's entire 5,000-strong email list? Risky move, environmentalists.
Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program continues to grow in the Sunshine State and enrollment numbers are higher than ever for the 2016-2017 school year.
A tropical disturbance could become a hurricane and threaten Florida and the Gulf Coast in the next few days, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The National Hurricane Center warned Floridians there was a 70 percent chance of tropical storm system Invest 99L turning into a tropical cyclone over the next five days.
If the storm strengthens to a named storm, it would be the eighth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane season. The disturbance would be known as Hermine if it is upgraded to a named storm.
For retiring Congresswoman Gwen Graham, 2016 is all about 2018.
When announcing that she would not run for a second term in Congress back in April, Graham threw open the door to running for governor, the post her father Bob Graham held for eight years in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s.
While Graham isn’t on the ballot this year, thanks in part to the latest round of redistricting which made her district far more hospitable to Republicans, she is staying busy on the campaign trail.
A poll released on Friday shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump running close in Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map.
The Mason Dixon poll of registered Florida voters has Clinton with 44 percent and Trump with 42 percent. Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor who is running again as the Libertarian nominee, pulls 6 percent while 2 percent of those surveyed back Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Bernie Sanders never understood the epic quality of the Clinton scandals. In his first debate, he famously dismissed the email issue, it being beneath the dignity of a great revolutionary to deal in things so tawdry and straightforward.
The two newspapers serving Congressional District 23 and aimed specifically at African Americans have both endorsed Nova University law professor Tim Canova over incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Gov. Rick Scott announced in a written statement Thursday he will be in Washington D.C. Sept. 6 to meet with members of Congress on the immediate need for funding to combat the Zika virus.
Scott said, “Since Congress decided to go on a seven-week vacation, the state of Florida has been hard at work combatting the Zika virus."
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