Florida News

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today that a new analysis shows Southern Florida, the Florida Keys, and the East Coast are unlikely to experience any effects from the remaining oil on the surface of the Gulf as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, the biggest telephone landline providers in Florida, lost approximately one million subscribers in 2009, the Florida Public Service Commission said today.

Quinnipiac University has a new poll out today on the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races.A You can read here for more on that.

Coastal Community Bank, of Panama City Beach, Florida, which incorporates Apalachicola State Bank whose origins date back more than a century, was closed on Friday by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation.

In the past 30 years, Eric Brown has seen his share of brown lawns on the Space Coast -- especially in May, when Florida's dry season peaks.

TALLAHASSEE -- Republican Rick Scott scored a major tactical victory in his self-funded race for governor Friday when a federal appeals court said Attorney General Bill McCollum can't get extra matching money when Scott exceeds Florida's campaign-spending cap.

Eighteen Brevard County residents were arrested and illegal medications and drug paraphernalia were confiscated Wednesday night during a countywide surprise check of probationers and violent offenders.

While people in New York, LA and Phoenix marched in protest of Arizon'as immigration law, immigrant rights' groups came together in Tampa as a united force under the Florida Immigration Coalition.

A new poll shows Florida Gov. Charlie Crist leading the U.S. Senate race. A Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters released Friday shows Crist and Republican Marco Rubio ahead of both Democratic candidates.

CL on the Road concert review: Sublime with Rome shreds it at the Sunset Cove Amphitheater in Boca Raton July 29, 2010 at 3:35 pm by Amber Mcdonald It's always fabulous to go roadtrippin' in the name music, which is exactly what I did this past weekend to get my second hit of the Sublime with Rome tour.

Gulf beach closings from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle were nearly 10 times more often this summer than last because of oil from BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

State education officials say that a preliminary review of Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results indicates that they are within historical ranges and are likely accurate.

The head of the state's child welfare agency will testify in Washington, D.C., about how states can use federal funds to keep children out of foster care.

Retired Adm. LeRoy Collins Jr., a former U.S. Senate candidate and current director of the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs, was killed Thursday morning when he was hit by an SUV while riding his bicycle, police said.

A judge removed from the November ballot Thursday a proposed constitutional amendment that would have blocked the state from implementing a health care plan similar to President Barack Obama's federal plan, saying the ballot language would have confused voters.

Nine Central Florida stores are among the 30 that Winn-Dixie is closing throughout the Southeast, the Jacksonville -based grocery chain said Wednesday night.

Around the crystal-blue spring waters that inspired his adventurous life, trailblazing cave diver, deep-water cinematographer and aquifer advocate Wes Skiles was eulogized Wednesday as a Florida hero.

South Florida immigrants viewed with relief a federal judge's decision Wednesday to block provisions of an Arizona law that would step up enforcement against people suspected of being in the country illegally.

An unknown vandal spray-painted "fag" on several of openly gay Florida Congressional candidate Scott Galvin's campaign signs.

Allstate Insurance subsidiaries in Florida are seeking rate increases from 18 percent to 33 percent.