Florida Politics

U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida announced on Wednesday that he will seek the position of Senate Republican leader.

With a law now in effect preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Florida health-care regulators Thursday released emergency rules related to treating medical conditions that pose dangers to the lives of pregnant women or unborn children.

Billboards featuring an angry-looking Trump have emerged across Florida just one day before a controversial abortion law takes effect.

In Florida and across the nation, young voters could prove pivotal in the 2024 election, from the presidency to ballot amendments and down ballot races that will determine who controls Congress.

Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to travel to Jacksonville, Florida, next week for a campaign event highlighting abortion restrictions nationwide. It is billed as another stop in the "Fight for Reproductive Freedoms" tour, which the vice president kicked off in January.

As the qualifying period ended Friday for this year’s congressional elections, U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., said he would not seek another term and backed former state Senate President Mike Haridopolos as a successor.

College students could soon be allowed to carry guns at universities in Florida.

An attorney asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a controversial Florida law signed last year that restricts Chinese citizens from buying real estate in much of the state, calling it discriminatory and a violation of the federal government’s supremacy in deciding foreign affairs.

Flanked by veterans who served in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a measure that will lead to the history of communism being taught in grades as low as kindergarten.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke at Tohopekaliga High School in Osceola County on Thursday where he signed two new bills regarding religious services and patriotic organization in schools, and shared an update about funding for mental health services in schools.

The Florida Democratic Party hopes a new billboard campaign across the state will help push people to run for office. One area of focus is Seminole County.

Changing course, a Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended from office by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will seek reelection while a court battle continues over his 2022 removal from the post.

Bob Graham, who served as Florida's 38th governor in the 1980s and was later elected to the United States Senate, where he served for nearly two decades, has died. He was 87.

Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis limiting the powers of local government with newly-signed bills that deal with worker safety and police oversight.

Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 601 into law Friday, preventing citizens’ police review boards from investigating law enforcement.

A leader of the Republican Party of Florida has apologized for being excessively drunk and urinating and vomiting all over his room at a hotel last week, saying he has been dealing with alcoholism and mental health issues.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed two bills into law that aim to fight the opioid epidemic in Florida. The Florida governor signed Senate Bill 718 and Senate Bill 66 during a news conference at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office Professional Development Center in Sanford on Monday morning.

The city of Orlando will soon discuss the future of the District 5 seat and community members are announcing their intentions to run.