Florida

Detectives posed as juveniles on social media, apps and online dating sites as part of “Operation Child Protector.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to President Joe Biden during a speech in Panama City, Fla., on Wednesday.

Already in the 2021 season, five named systems have formed with Hurricane Elsa being the earliest fifth named storm on record.

Laid-off workers didn’t have to look for work to collect unemployment benefits early in the Covid pandemic. Most states have re-imposed the requirement.

President Joe Biden is calling on resistant Republican governors to “get out of the way” of rules to contain the more transmissible and dangerous COVID-19 variant

President Joe Biden called out Texas and Florida’s low vaccination rates and high COVID-19 rates, asking the governors of those states to help or “at least get out of the way of people trying to do the right thing.”

With COVID-19 cases rising in many states thanks to the Delta variant, one doctor is shifting the conversation to individual responsibility.

Florida has taken a a step to halt investment of state resources in the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s over its decision to stop selling ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem.

With the Delta variant spreading widely among the unvaccinated and even causing mild cases in some vaccinated people, we need to talk more about individual responsibility when it comes to the virus, says University of South Florida VP Dr. Jay Wolfson.

The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida rose to an all-time high of 11,515 patients in one day, according to data the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released Tuesday.

Federal health officials say Florida has reported more than 21,600 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic

Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic.

A video recording of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other men allegedly engaging in massage parlor sex will be returned to prosecutors for destruction, a Florida judge ruled Friday, ending a two-year saga that tarnished the reputation of one of football’s most successful luminaries.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirmed in a news conference Monday that the remains of the final victim of the Surfside condo collapse have been identified.

Building officials make recommendations to bring properties up to code and owners argue against them, typically asking for more time to comply.

The Team USA athlete explained what it was like to be an American flag bearer alongside Sue Bird. “It’s a symbol of liberty, a symbol of opportunity—one that my family needed and left their country for,” Alvarez said. “I was very honored to stand with that flag.”

An appeals court sided with Florida in its challenge against federal regulations for cruise ships hours after Florida brought the case to the Supreme Court.

With American vacationers congregating in many of the same destinations, some travel spots — even well-known ones — have fewer people than usual.

Pandemic restrictions on Florida-based cruise ships are no longer in place under the latest ruling by a federal appeals court, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention try to fight a Florida lawsuit challenging the regulations.

Firefighters have officially ended their search for bodies in the debris of the collapsed Surfside condo building