Jim Turner - News Service of Florida

They filed the federal lawsuit after around 215 million gallons of wastewater was discharged into Tampa Bay in 2021. It said the discharges caused harmful algae blooms and fish kills.

With one leader saying it is on the "brink of disaster," Florida's citrus industry is nearing the end of the 2023-2024 growing season showing relatively little growth from the previous hurricane-marred season.

Florida is moving forward with plans to buy and retrofit a massive warehouse in Auburndale as a staging area to respond to hurricanes and other emergencies.

The 16 pages of cuts ranged from as little as $10,500 for a county public works generator to $80 million for group insurance for the state college system.

Candidates have until Friday to file paperwork at the state Division of Elections to qualify for the 2024 legislative elections.

John Morgan has already cut a series of commercials to support Amendment 3. But don’t expect him to pump millions of his own dollars into the campaign as he did for the medical marijuana amendment.

They come after NOAA issued an updated forecast that calls for up to 25 named storms, largely due to warmer ocean waters.

Items such as generators, batteries, and pet supplies will be available tax-free from June 1-14 ahead of what is predicted to be a "turbulent" hurricane season.

The state Department of Commerce on Friday released a report that estimated a 3.3 percent jobless rate, representing 361,000 Floridians qualified as unemployed in mid-April. The number of unemployed people was up by 8,000 from March. Meanwhile, the labor force totaled 11.095 million in April, down 2,000 people from a month earlier.

Bruises continue to be inflicted on Florida's citrus industry, as the forecast for the nearly concluded growing season dropped further Friday.