A lucky woman hit the jackpot in Florida after playing a lottery scratch-off game this week, Lottery officials announced Monday.

The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory after four locally contracted cases of malaria were reported along the Gulf Coast south of Tampa.

Officials in Florida are keeping a watchful eye on a train car carrying 30,000 gallons of propane that tipped over in a derailment along the Gulf Coast.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took aim at college and university diversity programs during an event in Bradenton Tuesday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was scheduled to hold a news conference in Bradenton Tuesday.

A suspect in a stolen car takes deputies on a wild chase into the woods on the west coast of Florida.

A Florida man was hospitalized with serious injuries from an alligator attack on the state’s west coast Wednesday evening.

A two-year-old boy drowned in a canal outside a west central Florida apartment complex Friday morning, police said.

Officers in Bradenton arrested a woman at a hospital after they say she was caught on camera loading a gun.

A Bradenton teacher is facing several charges, including sexual battery, after school staff notified the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office about a possible sexual relationship with a student.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a news conference scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Manatee County to discuss updates regarding Piney Point.

A mandatory evacuation order near a leaking Florida wastewater reservoir that affected more than 300 homes and additional businesses has been lifted.

It has become a race against time as workers hope to ensure that the containment wall doesn't collapse.

A Florida state agency says dam safety experts consider the risk of a possible second breach in a leaking wastewater reservoir to be “unsubstantiated.”.

Gobierno de Florida Ron DeSantis dijo el domingo que equipos están trabajando para prevenir el colapso de un gran estanque de aguas residuales en el área de la Bahía de Tampa

Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis says crews are working to prevent the collapse of a large wastewater pond to avoid a “catastrophic flood."

Ron DeSantis held a news conference Wednesday morning in Manatee County, at which time he urged Floridians to be patient amid the delay in COVID-19 vaccine shipments. Snowstorms and icy roads up north have caused delays in shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine to Florida. “Now we did get the vast, vast majority of our Pfizer shipment this week,” DeSantis said. “We received about 136,000 doses.”The governor said the biggest delay is affecting the Moderna vaccine deliveries, which have yet to arrive. The governor said the Moderna shipments typically come by Tuesday or Wednesday of each week, adding that that’s the reason some scheduled appointments may be delayed.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Florida authorities say they’ve filed a voter fraud charge against a man who said he said he “wanted to test the system” when he tried to obtain a mail-in ballot for his deceased wife. Manatee County Supervisor of Elections Mike Bennett said he contacted the sheriff’s office after a review of voter rolls. Bennett said his staff reviews the voter rolls for each mail-in ballot request and it was discovered the woman had been deceased for two years. They determined that Wiggins forged his late wife’s name on the ballot request, according to the Bradenton Herald. Researchers say that voter fraud in general is rare in the United States.