Janet Cruz

As drought and climate change threaten water supplies, municipalities around the country are ramping up water reuse efforts. But they have to overcome the “yuk” factor.

Unofficial results are in for Tuesday's Tampa City Council runoff. And the political career of the council's longest-serving member hung on by a thread.

Only one of the Tampa City Council candidates endorsed by Jane Castor won, even as the mayor easily won reelection.

Led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republicans overwhelmed their Democratic counterparts. Here's a closer look.

Republicans have controlled the Florida Senate since the 1990s and are looking to expand their majority in the Nov. 8 elections. Democrats, meanwhile, hope to pick up a couple of seats and chip away at the GOP’s control.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Janet Cruz was first elected to the state Senate in 2018 after spending eight years in the House. Republican Jay Collins served in the U.S. Army Special Forces and had multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The state senator who proposed a bill to catalog and restore abandoned African American cemeteries across Florida said she is disappointed the legislation died in the just-ended session at the Capitol but isn’t giving up the fight.

The lack of action on the legislation stunned supporters and the reasons for its demise were not clear.

Among the budget items agreed upon is $20 million a year for 30 years to help finance a Moffitt Cancer Center expansion in Pasco County, and suspending state gas taxes in October.

One woman's quest to learn where her ancestors may have been buried led to a historic African-American burial ground believed to hold the graves of former slaves from Welaunee and Fleischmann plantations in Leon County.

It was established as an independent branch of the uniformed services, and it’s the first new branch since the Air Force was authorized in 1947.

With demonstrations of support for protesters in Cuba happening in Florida, there is some worry about if — and how — HB 1 will affect those participating.