Ron DeSantis

Florida’s arts community breathes a sigh of relief after Gov. Ron DeSantis approved partial funding for cultural grants following last year’s deep budget cuts. One group in Palm Beach County expressed appreciation for the funding but acknowledged many organizations are still struggling.

DeSantis assailed House Health Care Budget Chairman Alex Andrade, a Pensacola Republican who submitted records to State Attorney Jack Campbell's office late last month after a House inquiry into the nonprofit Hope Florida Foundation.

The organization behind a campaign for an abortion-rights ballot measure sued the Florida governor’s administration over its threats of criminal prosecution against TV stations.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and other defendants Monday argued a federal judge should dismiss a class-action lawsuit challenging the Florida-backed flights of 49 migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in 2022.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t on the ballot — but his education agenda is. DeSantis is once again throwing his weight behind county school board candidates across the state.

A federal judge Friday permanently blocked restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers placed on addressing race-related issues in workplace training — part of a controversial 2022 law that DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis, was one of Donald Trump's former rivals, who was celebrated the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention ."We cannot let him down. And we cannot let America down," DeSantis said.

An appeals court upheld the denial of a public-records request for Gov. Ron DeSantis but did not weigh in on the issue of executive privilege.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he's deploying members of the Florida State Guard and additional members of the Florida National Guard to Texas, which is in a dispute with the federal government about undocumented immigrants entering the country.

Dubbed the “Focus on Florida’s Future Budget,” the proposal asks lawmakers for an additional $5 million to continue a controversial program that has transported undocumented immigrants to Massachusetts and California and to set aside $1 million for potential legal expenses related to Florida State University being left out of the four-team college football playoffs.

The case, which is expected to go to the Florida Supreme Court, centers on an overhaul of North Florida’s Congressional District 5, which in the past elected Black Democrat Al Lawson. Voting-rights groups and other plaintiffs argue that the overhaul violated part of the constitutional amendment, known as the Fair Districts Amendment, that barred drawing districts that would “diminish” the ability of minorities to “elect representatives of their choice.”

The Republican presidential candidates at Wednesday's debate all say they support Israel, but they are squabbling over China and Ukraine. Donald Trump skipped it for the third time. They face new urgency to cut into Trump’s margins with the leadoff Iowa caucuses just two months away.