19+ hour, 34+ min ago   (762+ words) Editor's note: This story was originally published by The Florida Trib. The state agency that quietly signed away an estimated $1 billion in taxpayer funds for immigration enforcement finally produced a state-mandated public accounting Friday of its staggering emergency spending — nearly…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (452+ words) This year marks a quarter of a century since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Twenty-five years later a part-time Southwest Florida resident talks about his role in verifying what happened that day. In particular, what happened to a flag that…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1767+ words) Kelly Gaylord is president of the Punta Gorda Historic Mural Society. She has muralist Keith Goodson on speed dial. She calls him whenever one of the society’s murals fails. She’s had to call him a lot. The society has lost a…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (947+ words) Following her appointment to the Senate by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Sen. Ashley Moody is seeking a full term as she faces Democratic challenger Angie Nixon. Moody, a Republican who has closely aligned herself with President Donald Trump, is campaigning…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (577+ words) TALLAHASSEE - House Democrats want to impeach Attorney General James Uthmeier for his role in the diversion of $10 million in a settlement over Medicaid overpayments that was routed into political committees he controlled. The committees opposed two measures on the November…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (248+ words) The Trump administration is threatening more economic pressure on Iran to push it back into negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump is calling the campaign an "economic D-Day." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he will outline the new…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (578+ words) Byron Donalds, who cruised to an easy victory in the Republican primary for governor with the endorsement of Donald Trump, has maintained two separate campaigns — one for the governorship and one for re-election to his U.S. House seat — during almost…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (114+ words) The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a rule to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conversation Rule. Opposition to Tuesday's move was immediate. But opponents of the move said the proposal will lead to scrapping the country’s most significant…...