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On Monday morning, about 35 protestors gathered at Gainesville City Hall to fight for reproductive freedom. The strike was in commemoration of the second-year anniversary of the overturning of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which established a woman’s legal right to have an abortion.

Matthew Gray’s office is located in a section of a strip mall in Ocala. But inside, a cast of characters sit on sofas surrounded by skulls, bugs and taxidermied animals.

Soldiers Freedom Outdoors owns and runs Camp Freedom, offering a safe haven for veterans to heal in the outdoors. It’s a nonprofit that aims to provide nature therapy to veterans from all walks of life by hosting no-cost retreats.

Lawmakers in Tallahassee were poised this week to make it easier and cheaper for hundreds of thousands of Florida residents to undergo potentially life-saving skin cancer screenings by ensuring that all costs are covered by health insurance companies. Florida would be the second U.S. state – and the first in the South – to offer such subsidized screenings.

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INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) — A 75-year-old man suspected in the dismembering death of a man at a home in north Florida has died, sheriff's officials said.…

The Lubee Bat Conservancy is working hard to breed rare, exotic bats to support the wild populations of bats across the globe. They promoted this effort…

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Citrus County Animal Services plans to relocate to a new facility in Lecanto that's expected to be completed by spring 2025. The project is budgeted at $12.5 million, with $9 million going toward construction of the new animal shelter that will more than double the size of the current one.

Hurricane Idalia is expected to strengthen and make landfall somewhere on the Gulf Coast by Wednesday. Here's how counties in Florida are preparing for…