The Santa Rosa County School District will eliminate the district-developed Local End of Course Exams, according to an April 30 email from Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick

Gov. Rick Scott is heading to Washington to try to convince the Obama administration to release federal hospital funds, but he insists that he will not support expanding Medicaid insurance to more than 800,000 Floridians.

While the majority of commissioners expressed support in January for a 2016 referendum regarding a smaller courthouse design in downtown Milton, the board remains undecided on what course to take following Tuesday’s judicial workshop.

Millions of older people are getting tests they don’t need to prove they are healthy enough to have cataracts removed, a new study finds. The excess testing before this quick, ultra-safe eye procedure is costing them and Medicare a bundle, and many patients don’t know they can question it, doctors say.

Each year throughout the state, the Florida Forest Service, University of Florida IFAS Extension Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission work together with private landowners to showcase forest stewardship and management activities on private forest lands as part of the Forest Stewardship program.