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State Rep. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, raised $53,050 during the second half of March to help fuel his campaign for the Senate seat, bringing his overall total to $98,275.

Officials in the Florida Panhandle frustrated with B-P’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill let their feeling be known to Governor Charlie Crist…

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is working to hold another bear hunt. The first hunt after two decades, held in October 2015, was highly controversial and another bear hunt could draw protest from opponents.

As is customary, the Supreme Court did not explain its reasons for declining to take up the case.

Angela Wright, who works as the computer lab proctor at Hawthorne Middle/High School, was named this week as a Florida School-Related Employee of the Year finalist.

The law, signed Thursday by Gov. Rick Scott, will allow nurse practitioners and physician's assistants to issue seven-day prescriptions for drugs like hormone and pain medication.

A man was arrested in South Carolina Wednesday night while driving a car belonging to Rev. Rene Robert, a Catholic priest last seen in St. Augustine that has been missing since Sunday. Authorities say they "are starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together" but still don't know Robert's whereabouts

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday vetoed a controversial bill that would overhaul the state's alimony laws. In his veto, Scott focused on part of the bill that dealt with child time-sharing arrangements in divorces.

Gov. Rick Scott signed a new education bill into law April 14, which will allow kids to attend any public school. For students who play a FHSAA sport at one school, this section of the bill comes with a catch: students who transfer cannot play that same sport at their new school during the same season.

The long fourth of July holiday weekend was a difficult one for tourism interests in oil-stained northwest Florida. Phil Latzman has this perspective on…