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Florida’s population along the coast has boomed in the eleven years since the last hurricane hit. That combined with miles of construction on major highways could make evacuating ahead of a storm an even bigger headache this hurricane season.

Storm surge is often seen as one of the deadliest effects of tropical cyclones and can cause dangerous flooding. With Hurricane Season about to be upon us, meteorologists are now out with a new tool to help better forecast storm surge.

Florida CFO Alex Sink wants people to know that Florida’s beaches are beautiful, the fish are biting and the only oil on the state’s beaches is suntan…

A UF professor and local Gainesville pastor talks about Libyan protest.

A New York University Stern School professor spoke with WUFT about civility in American politics. The event was part of the Bob Graham Center election series.

The Forrest Meadows funeral home in Gainesville put on a Memorial day ceremony today. That and more in 90 seconds.

Insurance leaders say the state of Florida’s property insurance market is good. But as Florida prepares to enter the 2016 hurricane season, prices are starting to go up and at least one insurance official is warning of a perfect storm.

Alachua County residents lined 39th avenue to welcome home Marine, Lance Corporal Phillip Paul Clark on Thursday (May 27th). The motorcade started in…

With this weekend marking the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists, fishery experts and government officials will meet at the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Symposium in St. Pete Beach, where they will share their research findings.

The town of Chicken, Alaska, and Two Egg, Florida, have definitively settled the question of which came first. What's also clear is they are neither first nor last in the country's long list of odd-named places. In Pennsylvania you'll find Intercourse, Virginville and Blue Ball. In Louisiana, if you've had too much of Moonshine, you can always visit Cut Off.