The Lancaster Correctional Institution is a level IV youthful offender facility for male inmates between the ages of 15 and 24. Operated by the Florida Department of Corrections, it is located in Trenton, Florida and can house up to 730 minimum, medium, and closed-custody inmates. The Marine Service Technology Program …

WUFT photojournalists made their way to Cedar Key and Perry to report on the damage following the arrival Wednesday morning of Hurricane Idalia, a Category 3 storm that made landfall in Florida's Big Bend. 

Gabby Salazar, an adjunct professor at the University of Florida with the Tropical Conservation and Development Program at the Center for Latin American Studies, has collaborated with the Centre for Wildlife Studies in India to develop Wild Shaale, a conservation education program for 10-to-13-year-old children. The program, which started in 2018, has reached more than 20,000 children in rural India.

Republican Florida House of Representatives Bobby Payne, Palatka, and Tyler Sirois, Merritt Island, are cosponsoring HB 1543, which proposes to reduce the minimum age at which a person may purchase, sell or transfer a firearm from 21 to 18. The measure is headed to the Criminal Justice Subcommittee for discussion March 13.