Property owners on this small barrier island filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to invalidate the designation of 6,200 acres as protected beach mouse habitat. ...more

December 22, 2007

State and local taxes paid by illegal immigrants fail to offset the cost of public services that state and local governments in Florida and elsewhere provide, a new study done for Congress says. ...more

December 19, 2007

Twenty years ago, many of the nation's great freshwater-fed bays were on the brink of collapse. Victimized by decades of pollution, once-bountiful oyster and crab fisheries were dying, sea grasses were receding and multimillion-dollar seafood-based economies were at risk. ...more

November 23, 2007

Republican Rudy Giuliani distanced himself Friday from anti-gun positions he took when he was a moderate mayor of New York, and asked the National Rifle Association to support his presidential candidacy. ...more

September 22, 2007

Florida officials decided four years ago that the state needed to do more with its transportation taxes than build highways. The railroads, they said, should get some of the money, too. ...more

September 19, 2007

Florida officials decided four years ago that the state needed to do more with its transportation taxes than build highways. The railroads, they said, should get some of the money, too. ...more

September 18, 2007