An audience filled the Polk County Commission chambers for the annual meeting with legislators, just days before the session ...

Florida lawmakers will return to the capitol on Tuesday for their annual legislative session, with plenty of issues on tap ...

As Fentrice Driskell prepares to lead her fellow Democrats during the Florida legislative session that opens next week, she ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — For most people in Florida, misdemeanor theft can result in up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. For ...

After three back-to-back special sessions on illegal immigration and a bill to crack down on the issue, Florida state ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s Republican legislators were on friendly terms heading into his final two years in office. Or so it seemed, until a bitter fight over immigration this year exposed ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis faces a newly skeptical Legislature as the state confronts property insurance and other issues in ...

In recent years, ambitions were largely dictated by the top-down priorities of DeSantis and prior legislative leaders.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced a statewide expansion of immigration enforcement, granting all 67 county sheriffs the authority to act as federal immigration agents under the 287 (g) ...

The administrations of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday touted their collaboration to crack down on illegal immigration, days after all of Florida’s sheriffs announced they ...

All sheriff's offices in Florida now have the ability to do street-level enforcement under an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.