Chris Perkins

Some of Florida’s biggest municipalities went against the national trend in 2021 by reducing their murder numbers, or keeping them practically the same, from 2020, according to statistics from medical examiners.

The state of Florida on Friday awarded millions of dollars for improvements as part of a larger South Florida effort to deal with flooding and other water-control efforts.

The arctic blast forecast to invade this weekend is expected to drop temperatures to the lowest point in a dozen years.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced an initiative to increase access to at-home COVID testing, delivering about a million self-administered units, first to nursing homes and then to senior centers.

Temperatures Wednesday morning could be as low as 41 degrees in the western reaches, and with the wind it could feel like a frigid 37. On the coast, temperatures could dip to 48 degrees with a wind chill of 46.

A low-pressure system in the Caribbean looming closer to Florida has a 60% chance of developing into the next tropical depression or tropical storm in the next five days.