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The Florida Supreme Court recommended adding a circuit judge in Southwest Florida and county judges in Orange and Hillsborough counties.

Florida regulators and a Miami hotel have settled a dispute about minors attending an event last year titled “A Drag Show Christmas.”

A Florida bill would allow people to kill bears on their property without permits when they feel threatened or for protection.

A judge ruled in support of Florida's $1.33 million license-renewal fee for medical marijuana companies to do business in the state.

School staff are being investigated after a transgender student played on the girls’ volleyball team at a Broward County high school.

An appeals court sided with the Florida Department of Corrections and blocked the Hillsborough County public defender’s office from representing an inmate in a dispute about the state collecting restitution.

Florida would give state recognition to three Native American tribes in the Panhandle, under a bill filed by a Pensacola Republican.

Felons’ voting rights Attorneys for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and four individual plaintiffs last week filed a court document that challenges the way a 2018 constitutional amendment aimed at restoring felons’ voting rights has...

Dyslexia affects 1 out of every 5 people, there’s a company using AI to help people with dyslexia. The program is called Dysolve.

Plaintiffs want to continue a lawsuit challenging how Florida is carrying out a constitutional amendment to restore felons’ voting rights.

By: Jim Saunders ©2023 The News Service of Florida. All rights reserved TALLAHASSEE — In an issue that might ultimately have to be sorted out by the Florida Supreme Court, an appeals court has sided...

Summer this year was one of the hottest on record in the Tampa Bay Area, and shorebirds in Tampa Bay dealt with the heat.