Gov. Ron DeSantis

The Florida Legislature recently passed a bill that seriously limits how local governments can support LGBTQ Pride — but local institutions are pressing on anyways. Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely to sign it into law.

If HB 757 becomes law, public colleges and universities would be left to decide whether to opt in. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will ultimately decide whether the expansion of the guardian program reaches college campuses.

The governor’s comment that ‘I think Justice Alito is writing the opinion,’ raised an objection from a redistricting critic.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law allowing Florida leaders to label groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations. The law, signed Monday, lets a top official at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement designate groups as terrorist organizations, with approval from the governor and state cabinet.

Key Biscayne passed an ordinance that banned the noisy lawn contraptions in 2018. Some municipalities looked at the island with envy, passing their own bans or planning to do so. Now, municipalities – sick of home rule being preempted by Tallahassee – are looking at work-arounds to stop — or at minimize – the impacts.

Two coalitions of advocacy groups immediately filed separate suits over the new Florida law on Wednesday.

While Congress remains deadlocked on the SAVE America Act that would require U.S. citizenship to register to vote, that requirement will soon become the law of the land in Florida now that Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the latest “voting integrity ” legislation.

In a statement, House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, said Monday that DeSantis and Republicans in the Florida Legislature "decided to prioritize wasting five million of your taxpayer dollars on renaming an airport after the President."

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on the Florida House to impeach a Tallahassee judge who briefly released a sex offender onto the streets, resulting in the killing of the man’s 5-year-old stepdaughter.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, flanked by Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and Senate President Ben Albritton, signed the 2026 Florida Farm bill in Highlands County Monday.

The state is looking at “living shorelines” such as mangrove forests, oyster reef restoration and hybrid options like 3D-printed walls that help fight climate change.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday bashed Republican sheriffs and police chiefs for planning to urge the Trump administration to create a citizenship path for crime-free undocumented immigrants, calling the move “incoherent” and ill-advised.