President Donald Trump’s administration changed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator tasked with disaster response.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a statewide ban on water fluoridation into law after holding a press conference in Miami on Tuesday.

Utah dentists say they’re bracing for an increase in tooth decay among the state’s most vulnerable people.

Florida voters will now face new hurdles when trying to put proposed laws on the ballot through citizen-led petition drives.

A new reverse osmosis water treatment facility is now open in the Lower Keys, providing a backup supply of drinking water during emergencies and peak demand periods.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference in Key West on Monday morning.

Florida lawmakers approved an expansion Friday on the ban on cell phones for elementary and middle school students, and are testing it in high schools.

The Florida Legislature passed the bill dubbed Lucy’s Law late Friday night.

Florida lawmakers have given final approval to creating new hurdles for getting citizen-driven initiatives on the ballot before voters.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Miramar on Thursday morning.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are in Florida with Gov. Ron DeSantis to praise a week long operation that netted 1,120 arrests of people they say were in the country illegally.

An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems has been executed in Florida for the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three young children.

Florida officials are appealing an injunction that freezes a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people who came to the country illegally to enter Florida if they elude immigration authorities.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis announced a program to bring Hope Florida to school districts at an event at Fruitland Park Elementary School in Lake County Wednesday.

Hundreds of arrests of illegal immigrants were made in just a matter of days across the state of Florida.

Florida is poised to become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over the concerns of dentists and public health advocates who say the mineral is a safe, effective way to protect people of all ages from developing cavities.

Trooper’s Law, inspired by the Florida dog abandoned during Hurricane Milton evacuations and rescued by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, will head to Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk.

A news conference about fishing in the state of Florida was interrupted on Monday when a protestor started yelling.

Scrutiny of a welfare program that is the signature initiative of Florida first lady Casey DeSantis is threatening to undermine a potential run to succeed her husband as governor, as well as his own presidential ambitions.

A lawsuit against Florida’s ban on “lab-grown” meat is still alive after a federal judge tossed four parts of the lawsuit but kept a fifth.

The state legislative investigation involving funding for First Lady Casey DeSantis’ Hope Florida program had an abrupt, surprise end Thursday when the witnesses called to testify about a $10 million money trail declined to show up.

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the legality of a controversial $10 million donation during a Wednesday visit to Fort Pierce. He was there to announce grants for vocational training that included $4.9 million to Miami Dade College’s aircraft mechanics program.

Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

A bill moving through the Florida legislature meant to block development of Florida state park land is heading to the Senate floor.

Student survivors of last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University are urging legislators to block an effort to reverse a law passed in the wake of the 2018 Parkland shooting that raised the state’s gun-buying age from 18 to 21.

A growing number of Republican-led states are taking aim at driver's licenses issued by other states to people in the U.S. illegally.

Students who experienced a shooting at both Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 and Florida State University days ago have sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis demanding he reject a law that would lower the firearm purchase age back to 18 years old.

Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets.

With six weeks until hurricane season, few in South Florida know more about the costs and logistics of disaster than Congressman Jared Moskowitz, who served as Florida’s director of Emergency Management in Governor Ron DeSantis’ first term.

Iowa looked a lot different in 2010, when Republican Kim Reynolds was first elected to statewide office.

President Donald Trump was meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House when he reacted to the fatal shooting Thursday at Florida State University.

The Hope Florida Foundation, tied to First Lady Casey DeSantis, was supposed to rebuild trust today. Instead, it was hijacked by hackers as lawmakers demand answers about $10M in taxpayer money.

Police say a man believed to be a Florida State University student opened fire on campus, killing two people and wounding at least six others before he was shot and wounded by responding officers.

Just one day after testifying before a state House subcommittee, Hope Florida’s executive director has resigned.

Development such as golf courses, pickleball courts and luxury lodges would be prohibited at Florida state parks under legislation passed Wednesday by the state House following a public outcry against such projects that were pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference at Pensacola State College on Tuesday.

Governor Ron DeSantis has made the name change official. He signed two bills renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.”

The Philadelphia district attorney who became a campaign trail punching bag for Republicans amid rising crime in U.S. cities during the coronavirus pandemic is running for reelection on the back end of a withering effort to oust progressive district attorneys nationwide.

State financial records show the Hope Florida Foundation granted $5 million apiece to two dark money political committees linked to the governor and his then-chief of staff.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a hefty declaration at a conference in Orlando on Wednesday — the latest in a series of policy proposals that the governor has pushed for in recent months.

The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.

Florida's attorney general says his office will bring terrorism and attempted murder counts against a man already jailed on federal charges of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump while he was golfing last fall.

Speaking in Sweetwater on Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the allocation of $10 million in taxpayer funds to his wife’s charity.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference Thursday morning in Sweetwater.

Hope Florida is a program that connects people in need with services that was launched in 2021.

A bill involving renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” is heading to Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk.

A man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was carjacked on her lunch break has been executed in Florida.

Florida officials have been discussing ways to boost the state’s “enforcement removal operation" of undocumented migrants, but not without opposition.

After Air Force One landed at Miami International Airport, President Donald Trump flew to the Trump National Doral on Thursday and was set to spend the night in Mar-a-Lago.

Laura Loomer, a right-wing personality known for her incendiary social media presence, appeared to have President Donald Trump's ear again.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the first lady met with the Florida Sheriffs Association on Tuesday in Tallahassee.

Republicans Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine have won special elections in two Florida congressional districts.

Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo co-introduced a bill to study Gov. Ron DeSantis' idea to get rid of property taxes.

It appears Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Daniel Perez, both Republicans, aren’t seeing eye to eye again.

With the endorsement of President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds is holding his first campaign rally in the 2026 Florida governor’s race.

Democrats with few electoral outlets for their outrage at President Donald Trump’s dramatic restructuring of the federal government are pouring millions of dollars into two special elections in Florida.

Once floated as the heir to Donald Trump’s GOP, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is used to getting his way in Tallahassee.

A bill that would relax restrictions on working hours for Florida teenagers is moving through the state Legislature amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration.

Florida lawmakers are looking to children to fill low-wage jobs left open by the undocumented immigration crackdown, CNN reports.

Governors in several Republican-led states are pressing the Trump administration to cut the strings attached to their federal education aid, a goal conservatives have long dreamed of that now appears within reach as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the Education Department.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants President Donald Trump to consider another Floridian to serve as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director.

A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs has been executed.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a backlash from members of his own party after a series of podcasts that featured Steve Bannon and other supporters of President Donald Trump.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Manatee County on Friday morning.

In a state so often divided along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans alike were moved to tears as they gathered in the Florida capitol Thursday to honor the life and legacy of Democratic state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a longtime legislator, civil rights legend and educator who died on Feb. 13 at the age of 76.

Russian news agencies say that Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for high-level talks.

Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day the measure was signed, in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

Hialeah police will soon assist federal agents in cracking down on illegal immigration as part of a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak is addressing concerns surrounding the city’s participation in the 287G agreements, which assist federal immigration authorities.

For years, sunny South Florida has been a home away from home for Canadians.

A man convicted of kidnapping a woman in Miami and later strangling her to death is set to be executed next month under a death warrant Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Monday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference in Winter Haven on Monday.

Spring Break is in full swing in Miami Beach.

Social media influencer brothers — and fervent supporters of President Donald Trump — Andrew and Tristan Tate appear to have left Florida after getting the cold shoulder from Gov. Ron DeSantis and becoming subjects of a state criminal investigation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference in Miami Beach on Thursday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to roll back key provisions of Florida’s gun laws, including reversing red flag laws and lowering the minimum age to purchase a long gun from 21 to 18.

Florida’s attorney general says his office has opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing for the use of artificial intelligence to audit local governments across Florida, an initiative he hopes will help ensure efficiency in taxpayer spending.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to deliver his annual State of the State address on Tuesday.

Andrew Tate arrived in South Florida last Thursday from Romania.

Andrew Tate says he was disappointed in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for saying he and his brother aren’t welcomed in Florida after they landed in Fort Lauderdale.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was at Homestead Air Reserve Base last week supporting Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as an off-shore detention facility for deportable people.

The Miccosukee Tribe confirmed Friday evening that its former longtime chairman Billy Cypress had passed away.

Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, have returned to the U.S. after authorities lifted travel restrictions on the siblings, who have millions of online followers.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis made a stop at Florida International University on Friday, where speculation continued to swirl about her potential run for governor in 2026.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state was making a $2 million investment in cancer research and said questions about the 2026 election should be left to the “imagination.”

New laws in Florida mandate stiffer criminal penalties for immigrants in the U.S. illegally than for everyone else.

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, arrived Thursday in South Florida after authorities lifted travel restrictions imposed as part of the case.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Starke with Florida State Guard Director Mark Thieme on Thursday morning.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in South Florida.

Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds announced Tuesday that he’s entering the 2026 race to succeed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is ineligible to seek another term after eight years in office.

The aspirations of Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis have long been a topic of discussion in Tallahassee.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference in Ocala on Tuesday morning.

As Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency make waves in Washington, Governor Ron DeSantis said he will start a similar effort in Florida.

The career change for Florida’s former lieutenant governor was sudden, and to most, surprising.

Florida is considered a low-tax state, mostly because there is no personal income tax.

As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approaches the end of his term in office, he is talking up one potential heir to succeed him in 2026: his wife, Casey DeSantis.

Republican lawmakers in some states are threatening local officials with lawsuits, fines and jail time if they resist President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Florida’s new attorney general has filed a federal court lawsuit against Target, claiming the discount store chain “misled investors” by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

A new bill proposed this week in the Florida Senate aims to consider a study to eliminate property taxes across the state.