Justices, in a 5-1 decision, said an alternative requested by voting-rights groups for a North Florida district would violate ...

The Polk County School Board District 3 race already has three candidates. Incumbent Rick Nolte is on medical leave and has ...

On that same date, July 5, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, to whom FEMA reports, did not renew the contracts for four call center companies that answered those calls. The staff at the centers ...

The extension of Sunshine Boulevard north to State Road 80 won't get state funding this year thanks to DeSantis' veto. Locals ...

Both Republican and Democratic governors have sent help to Texas from the states of Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, ...

In a matter of days, an isolated training airport in the Everglades where endangered Florida panthers roam became a sprawling immigration detention center christened "Alligator Alcatraz," modeled ...

The first detainees arrived July 3 at the facility, which will cost $450 million to operate and consists of tents and trailers surrounded by razor wire.

‘Cops in the form of alligators’: Trump visits Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz The migrant detention facility, located in the Florida wetlands, was built in eight days and will include 3,000 beds.

Republicans Scott Franklin, Laurel Lee and Daniel Webster voted for the bill, while Democrat Darren Soto opposed it. The measure passed 218-214.

MIAMI (AP) — As Florida law enforcement agencies work with federal immigration officials, family members and immigrants’ rights advocates worry that people will disappear into county jail systems ...