Gov. Ron DeSantis said millions of Florida residents were still without power on Friday morning in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday morning is set to make an education-related announcement in Orlando.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday is set to hold a news conference in Fort Pierce.

A federal judge in Florida has indicated she may delay the start of former President Donald Trump's trial on charges that he hid classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, has pleaded not guilty to scheming with Trump to try to delete security footage sought by investigators probing the former president’s hoarding of classified documents.

A federal judge has signaled that December may be too soon to begin Donald Trump’s criminal trial concerning the mishandling of classified documents.

A South Florida art dealer has pleaded guilty in federal court in connection with a scheme involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings.

An alligator killed an 85-year-old woman as she walked her dog near a canal in a senior living community on Florida's Atlantic Coast.

Sheriff's officials say a 30-year-old woman has died following a shooting that broke out between rival gang members during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Florida.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Wednesday canceled a Missing Child Alert for a 2-month-old who was reported missing out of Fort Pierce, and the FDLE confirmed the child was safe.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Wednesday canceled a Missing Child Alert for a 2-month-old who was reported missing out of Fort Pierce, and the FDLE confirmed the child was safe.

A crew credited for rescuing a man from the ocean off the coast of Fort Pierce, where a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in a storm, arrived Wednesday afternoon at JaxPort.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A priority of House Speaker Chris Sprowls that would lead to books being delivered to the homes of struggling elementary school readers got unanimous approval Thursday from a House panel. “In the essence of this bill, we certainly want our children to read on grade-level, we want them to be successful students and adults. But more importantly, we want them to be excited about reading,” Trabulsy said during Thursday’s meeting of the House Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee. AdThe most recent data on English Language Arts assessments, recorded during the 2018-2019 school year, showed 43% of third-grade students were reading below grade level. To choose a distributor for delivering books, Trabulsy said the Department of Education or third-party administrator will publish a request for bids.

It was part of a chain of events that sparked research into using oak mulch to combat citrus disease, and the results are helping trees survive. Researchers rented a wood chipper to make oak mulch in Ft. Pierce after hurricane damage. (Indian River Research and Education Center)Scientists have been looking for ways to help Florida citrus growers fight the most severe citrus disease in history and the solution may be to spread oak mulch around the drip line of citrus trees. Months of data showed oak amendments improved the soil and that the compounds in the mulch help citrus trees weather the disease. In the meantime, if you have any fallen oak trees, you may want to find a wood shredder and chip away for more fruitful days ahead.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. – That darn wind is always causing trouble, especially for “Florida Man.”A man pulled over by police in Fort Pierce last month claimed the cocaine residue found inside a Budweiser can along with a crack pipe was blown there by the wind, according to News 6 sister station WPLG. Police noticed Joseph Zak, 37, appeared to be trying to discard an item when he was stopped for failing to pause at a stop sign, The Smoking Gun reports. When cops asked Zak about the white residue inside the can which eventually tested positive for crack cocaine, he told them "the police or the wind must have placed it there." Zak was arrested and jailed.