The owner of a telecom firm was sentenced to five years in prison for taking money from a federal program that provides discounted phone services to low-income customers.

Just a handful of aquariums in the world display manta rays, and Florida is the only U.S. state that allows their harvest.

Four adults were arrested after being accused of abusing nine children in their Florida home by caging them with plywood under a bunk bed and spraying them in the face with vinegar as a form of punishment,

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced deportation flights had begun to take off from the so-called Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility in the Everglades.

Close to $400 million in federal grants promised to Florida school districts will be released by the Trump administration, according to reports.  As of yesterday, the $35 million in funds promised to Miami-Dade County Public Schools remained frozen.

A Canadian tourist was seriously injured and hospitalized in south Florida after a shark attack, according to officials.

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competitive hunt created by the FWC to encourage participants to remove pythons from seven commission-managed lands in South Florida. This year, the Florida Python Challenge will begin at 12:01 a.m. July 11 and end at 5 p.m. July 20.

A Texas-based company filed a federal lawsuit this week against the Florida Division of Emergency Management, alleging it is owed more than $7.5 million after the firm helped evacuate people from war-torn Haiti in 2024.

Who's the top high school baseball player in Northeast Florida for the quarter-century? Readers can vote for their pick in our Times-Union poll.