Florida Government News

With his eye on a senate seat prize Governor Charlie Crist made an about face this week on his stance on the President's $787 billion federal economic stimulus bill.

The Community Healthcare Center, one of two Pensacola abortion clinics, is closed because of its failure to pay a $413,000 fine to the state for a licensing violation, the Pensacola News Journal reports.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:29 p.m. Floridians have been given a homework assignment for this weekend: Monitor Ida.

After Tuesday's elections, Florida looms as the next front in a war between moderates and conservatives that's dividing a Republican Party trying to surge toward the 2010 election.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Florida State Parks will waive day-use entrance fees for all visitors at Florida's award-winning state parks on Wednesday, November 11 in recognition of Veterans Day.

A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others.

The Florida Public Service Commission is planning a self-examination amid complaints the agency has been too cozy with the utilities it regulates, the panel's top staffer told lawmakers.

No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and blooming plants, a prisoner no longer after 27 years.

The developments in New York's 23rd district are cataclysm of a nationwide struggle within the Republican party between hard-line conservatives and more moderate candidates.

Ryan Keith Skipper's brutal murder in 2007 is one of many anti-LGBT hate crimes that have motivated Florida activists to push for tougher statutes.

Authorities say the mother of a missing Florida 7-month-old secretly turned her over to her baby sitter in the middle of the night.

When former Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan became the state university system's chancellor three months ago, he faced an imposing list of financial and political problems.

The baby sitter of a missing infant sent a letter to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist months before she disappeared asking him to save the child from her drug-abusing parents.

Gov. Charlie Crist is saying he did not endorse the $787 billion federal stimulus bill, a statement that might confuse some voters.

In the midst of the confusing battle over health care and questions as to whether the economic recovery plan is actually working, President Obama has the opportunity to claim a critical and unambiguous victory for working Americans: the World Trade Organization has ruled that the European Union's multibillion- dollar subsidy program to French ...

Pat Buchanan was talking with Chris Matthews about Florida Governor Charlie Crist on MSNBC's Hardball yesterday.

A great deal of misinformation is being circulated about efforts by water management districts, numerous cities and counties, utilities throughout Florida and industries across the state in response to efforts by the federal government, through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , to impose arbitrary nutrient standards for nitrogen and ...

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:56 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:58 a.m. TAMPA Private elevator inspectors in Florida are missing violations, and more of the machines are going uninspected each year.

By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE a ' Federal health care overhaul proposals in Congress could add between 1.4 million and 1.69 million people to the statea TMs Medicaid rolls and cost state taxpayers more than $600 million annually by 2015, state officials said in a report released today.

Attorney General Bill McCollum wants Florida lawmakers to make it tougher for former felons to get occupational and professional licenses.