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Calling it the “Health Care Medical Freedom Act,” a House Republican on Monday filed a bill that says health-care providers could not “discriminate” against patients based on vaccination status and seeks to add disclosure requirements when children get vaccinated.

Demand for temporary permits could rise by nearly 20 percent if every pregnant women in Florida applied, since there are about 225,000 births each year in the state, according to a lawsuit.

A new AI-powered tech is showing law enforcement and public health leaders dangerous drugs entering their communities and predicting the drug wave.

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of the year. Here is what we know about capital punishment in Florida.

Counties like Pinellas and Hillsborough get as much as one-third of their revenue from property taxes. If these are eliminated, a study shows services could be cut, or other taxes would have to go up.

Anthony Boyd was the 40th person executed in 2025 with another two months left in the year. It is the largest number of executions in the nation since 2013. The executions are also heavily concentrated geographically, with nearly all originating from southern, Republican-leaning states. This is especially true for Florida and its geographic neighbors.

This month, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the appointments of a PSC aide and a former Republican state representative to the commission.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers heard from nearly a dozen doctors on Tuesday who called on them to reject any proposed legislation that would remove vaccine mandates from Florida schools.

More than four months after Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the idea, the Florida House on Wednesday began a renewed effort to repeal a decades-old law that has prevented some people from pursuing key damages in medical-malpractice lawsuits.

The DeSantis administration has since targeted local sustainability and resilience policies. Now local governments and other detractors are firing back with litigation.

The U.S. has seen 35 executions so far in 2025, with seven more scheduled for later this month. This year's total already surpasses last year's 25 executions and could be the highest since 2012. Florida, Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina have carried out 76% of this year's executions.

Rep. Hillary Cassel, a Broward Republican who served in the state House as a Democrat for two years, issued HB 119 banning Florida courts, panels, tribunals, or agencies from basing decisions on the Islamic Shari’a code or other foreign legal systems.