The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee on Monday voted 6-2 to approve a proposal (SJR 802) that would put in the Florida ...

The 29 participating counties include Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Glades, Gulf, Hamilton, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Holmes, Jackson, Lafayette, Levy, ...

In a state so often divided along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans alike were moved to tears as they gathered in the ...

Florida lawmakers are targeting squatters once again in new legislation that is expected to soon become Florida law.

in the Senate. Jim has been executive editor of the News Service since 2013 and has covered state government and politics in ...

CHARLENE NELSON, a North Dakota municipal judge, knows what Gov. RON DESANTIS is up against if he tries to push through a ...

The creation of a state DOGE, the approval of a hardline law against undocumented immigrants, and the proposal to eliminate ...

was filed Thursday in the Florida Senate. According to the bill’s text, if a student has at least five unexcused absences or absences for which the reasons are unknown within a calendar month or ...

In the opening of the 60-day legislative session, House Speaker Daniel Perez (R-Miami) and Senate President Ben Albritton ...

The portion of female students at Florida Polytechnic in Lakeland has risen from 13.5% in 2014, its first year, to 19.8% in ...

The House is considering overriding four line-item vetoes by Gov. Ron DeSantis to reinstate more than $5 million to fund ...

• Make the General Assembly more transparent. Jackson and Stirling point out that while the North Carolina legislature fares well on some measures of openness and accessibility, a 2023 measure giving ...