Sara-James Ranta

People with guns can begin carrying them openly on streets and inside businesses or restaurants where owners don’t object, from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle, the attorney general says.

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday struck down Florida’s law against openly carrying a gun in public as unconstitutional.

Alachua County Public School officials had a consequential meeting with the Florida State Board of Education on Wednesday in St. Augustine.

Dubbed the “Deportation Depot,” Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference last week called the vacant Baker prison “ready-made infrastructure.” It once held 1,165 inmates. The governor’s office said the site would hold 1,300 but could be expanded to accommodate as many as 2,000 immigrants.

A sea of garnet, black and gold stretched across Langford Green park on the Florida State University campus Friday.

More than 400 students study in Gainesville from their hometown of Tallahassee, coping with the tragedy from afar, grieving the violence that hit too close to home.

From young children to lifelong activists, over 1,000 people rallied in downtown Gainesville Saturday as part of the “50-50-1” movement.

Florida has partnered with ICE under the 287(g) program, allowing state and local law enforcement to assist in federal immigration enforcement. WUFT reporter Sara-James Ranta explains what the program is and how it impacts law enforcement in the state.

“All I heard was ‘Don’t resist. Stop resisting.”

Both elementary and middle school students competed in the program, held Thursday at Lincoln Middle School.