A permanent sales tax exemption on specific disaster preparedness items was approved in the Florida 2025-2026 budget.

In all, DeSantis made more than 450 line-item vetoes statewide totaling about $567 million in $117.4 billion 2025-26 budget.

The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board reviewed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s line-item budget vetoes and finds political vindictiveness and insensitivity to local concerns. A budget is a statement of ...

Initiatives to improve an east Orange County water system and help a furniture and clothing bank that aids the poor were ...

SCHOOL START TIMES: Lawmakers passed a measure ( SB 296) that backed away from a 2023 law that would have prevented high ...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis approved an austere spending plan on the last day of the fiscal year Monday under $115 ...

The $117 billion spending plan includes support for mental health and addiction services, cancer research, maternal and child ...

In an interview with NBC’s Ryan Nobles, Murkowski addressed suggestions that she’d accepted a “bailout,” saying, “When people ...

With Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a state budget and a flurry of other bills, the dust has settled on the 2025 legislative ...

TALLAHASSEE — With Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a state budget and a flurry of other bills, the dust has settled on the 2025 ...

The stripping of fluoride from municipal drinking water supplies and student cellphone restrictions are just two of more than ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis averted a shutdown and signed Florida’s $117.4 billion budget for the next fiscal year, which kicks off ...