Senate

Democratic State House Rep. LaVon Bracy Davis is campaigning to fill the seat of the late State Senator Geraldine Thompson, with the blessing of Thompson’s family.

Senate Republicans rejected their own president's veto on New Year's Day, and the National Defense Authorization Act is set to take effect despite President Trump and a feud over relief payments.

These are the 13 races that will determine control of the Senate in the next Congress. To win control, Democrats would need to net-gain four seats, or three seats plus control of the White House.

The Senate Health Policy Committee gave unanimous approval Tuesday to a bill that would create in law so-called “remote dispensing site pharmacies” and...

The Florida legislature is again considering banning fracking—the process of extracting oil and natural gas underground. Lawmakers have tussled over the...

The Florida Senate stalled a plan to ban sanctuary cities this week. But the debate around immigration enforcement is alive and well in the statehouse.

Over the last three years, Florida Forever has not been the titan of land preservation it once was. The conservation program has seen significant...

A Senate committee on Tuesday approved a bill that includes some recommendations made by a state-appointed telehealth advisory panel but ignores other...

With the House ready to move quickly on the issue, a Senate Republican on Wednesday filed a proposal to repeal the long-controversial “certificate of...

Jubilant Republicans pushed on early Wednesday to the verge of the most sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws in more than three decades, a deeply...

The Florida Senate is setting the stage to override Governor Rick Scott’s veto of public school funding. But House lawmakers say the Senate is on its own.

More than $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid are wrapped into the health care reform bill that Senators are now considering.