Florida News Archive

Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31.

A proposal that would revamp Florida’s alimony laws, including eliminating what is known as permanent alimony, is ready to go to the House floor. The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted 12-6 along party lines to approve the bill (HB 1559).

A proposal to ban transgender females from taking part in girls’ or women’s high-school and college sports is teed up for consideration by the full House, after a Republican-controlled education panel overrode fiery objections Tuesday.

A proposal spurred by the coronavirus pandemic to limit local emergency orders is ready to go to the full Senate, despite lingering concerns from Democrats and local governments.

A plan to shutter up to four state prisons is alarming officials in Florida’s rural regions where correctional institutions have played an outsized role in providing jobs and supporting businesses for decades.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a lawsuit that alleged Florida Department of Children and Families social workers showed “deliberate indifference” to a child who was placed in foster care shortly after birth and was diagnosed with AIDS at age 14.

The Florida Senate is poised to start moving forward with a proposal designed to crack down on social-media companies that block users from their platforms, a priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday issued an executive order barring government agencies from issuing COVID-19 “passports” and preventing Florida businesses from requiring customers to show documentation that they have been vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 before gaining entrance.

Sweet and salty, oysters from Apalachicola Bay are an epicure’s delight.

But the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to Franklin County’s crippled oyster industry this week, siding with Georgia in a years-long legal “water war” over the river system that flows into the Florida estuary where the tasty tidbits have spawned for centuries.

A survey of 5,110 people incarcerated in prisons and jails in four states — including Florida — shows that more than 45 percent, or 2,318 people, would refuse COVID-19 vaccinations, according to a new “Morbidity and Mortality” report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another nearly 10 percent of people participating in the survey, or 498 people, said they would “hesitate to receive” vaccines while slightly more than 45 percent of the survey participants or, 2,294 people, said they would get the shots.