Two bills involving renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America” passed the Florida House on Thursday.

A 25% tariff on auto imports took effect Thursday and car dealerships in South Florida had not felt the impact -- except for a rush to buy now before the prices change.

A 29-year-old woman was behind bars Wednesday to face charges for the murder of a Jamaican-American father of two last year in Broward County.

A Florida man faces burglary charges after deputies said he was seen burglarizing an apartment complex.

A South Florida middle school teacher is facing several sexual abuse charges after police say he had sex with one of his students.

Check your pantry, Trader Joe's has recalled a dressing due to mislabeling.

Three spring elections have provided early warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump.

Nick Suzuki scored his second of the game 29 seconds into overtime as the Montreal Canadiens came back for a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers in the second game of a home-and-home on Tuesday night.

Miami-Dade commissioners voted to stop adding fluoride to the county’s public drinking water on Tuesday after the state’s surgeon general addressed them during the public meeting.

The “Gulf of America” bill, SB 608 continues to move along in the Florida Legislature.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the first lady met with the Florida Sheriffs Association on Tuesday in Tallahassee.

Millions were touched by the image of Grover protecting his brother Zorro after a driver struck him on Interstate 95 he broke three legs.

Hooters is going bust.

A handful of elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trump’s political standing just over two months into his second term in the White House.

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.

Newly released videos show the race to save lives after a three-vehicle crash involving a group of children who were celebrating a boy’s birthday.

At least four states are considering giving college athletes tax breaks on endorsement income.

Fittingly for an NCAA Tournament in which big schools from big conferences took record numbers of spots in the first week, then hogged them all for the second week, the Final Four will bring four teams seeded No. 1 to the sport’s biggest stage to play for the title.

Nick Suzuki scored to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Sunday.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Janine Stanwood was joined by Andy and Melissa Fernandez, Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo and Monroe County Administrator Christine Hurley.

Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo co-introduced a bill to study Gov. Ron DeSantis' idea to get rid of property taxes.

Last week, Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez proposed a historic sales tax cut for the state, bringing sales tax from 6% to 5.25%.

Walter Clayton Jr. rescued top-seeded Florida with two late 3-pointers, and the Gators rallied from nine points down late to reach the Final Four with an 84-79 victory over Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament’s West Region final.

It appears Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Daniel Perez, both Republicans, aren’t seeing eye to eye again.

Legislation is moving forward to make the iconic flamingo our state bird.

Some employees at the high-end Las Olas restaurant Salt 7 say they have not been paid, accusing the owner of issuing excuses and bouncing checks while the restaurant faces imminent eviction.

An appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent labor agencies from their respective posts in the federal government.

With the endorsement of President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds is holding his first campaign rally in the 2026 Florida governor’s race.

Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations.

A 43-year-old convicted felon known as “Wonder” was back at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Deputy Caitlin LaVigne was grieving her father, a fellow deputy who died just hours from retirement after a naked fugitive crashed.

Tuesday’s special elections to replace Florida’s Republican former U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz will be held in GOP strongholds.

It’s a double dose of unimaginable pain for Kelvin Solomon.

Will Richard scored 15 points, Alijah Martin added 14 points and seven rebounds, and top-seeded Florida played a steady second half to run away from No. 4 seed Maryland and into the NCAA Tournament’s West Region final with an 87-71 win.

Loved ones and neighbors have been left searching for answers following a fatal domestic shooting in Pembroke Park.

Nineteen sea turtles that rehabbed in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England are now back in the Atlantic Ocean off of Jacksonville, Florida.

Early Thursday morning, detectives were investigating a domestic violence tragedy hours after deputies found six shot at an apartment complex in Broward County.

Despite dying during last year’s legislative session, two bills in the Florida House and Senate are once again trying to further keep local governments from banning plastic.

A prosecutor says a Florida woman engaged in a “brazen fraud” by selling her student aid startup to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $175 million after dramatically exaggerating its customer base.

A bill that would relax restrictions on working hours for Florida teenagers is moving through the state Legislature amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration.

New state bills aim to expand options for death row inmates’ executions to include firing squads and nitrogen gas and allow judges to sentence more convicts to death.

Washington is roiled by the news that one of President Donald Trump’s top aides added a journalist to a group chat discussing military plans.

Florida lawmakers are looking to children to fill low-wage jobs left open by the undocumented immigration crackdown, CNN reports.

Scattered showers and some thunderstorms were briefly interrupting weeks of drought in parts of South Florida on Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Broward detectives released the identities of the 80-year-old man who deputies said recently fatally shot his 31-year-old son and 71-year-old wife before killing himself.

In 2012, Kate Ranta and her father Robert Ranta were shot by her estranged husband thomas Maffei right in front of her 4-year-old son.

Maria Suska described a nightmare with Oren Alexander about 10 years ago at the Versace Mansion in South Beach.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants President Donald Trump to consider another Floridian to serve as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director.

Miami-Dade firefighters continued working with a state and federal Forest Service team facing spot fires in the area where flames burned over 26,000 acres.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating a deputy-involved shooting Monday after deputies responded to a domestic violence victim’s call for help in Hillsborough County.

Walter Clayton Jr. and Florida ended UConn’s pursuit of a third straight national championship, with Clayton burying two key 3-pointers in the final three minutes of a scintillating 77-75 victory for the top-seeded Gators in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Firefighters made progress battling a large brush fire in south Miami-Dade Saturday morning.

Detectives have recovered four diamond earrings from a suspected thief two weeks after he gulped the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000 during his arrest on the side of a highway in the Florida Panhandle.

Tobacco Road is the center of the NCAA Tournament this week with three women’s first-round sites at Duke, North Carolina and N.

An ongoing brush fire in southern Miami-Dade County led to delays in an injured manatee getting treatment at a rehabilitation hospital, according to the group that rescued it Thursday in Marathon.

A Florida bill aimed at helping investigators catch hit-and-run drivers may also require cars in the state to have two license plates.

For the fourth time, Sang’s Chinese and Dim Sum in North Miami Beach has been ordered shut due to food safety violations.

The handful of remaining perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament busted out on Sunday, ending the hopes of millions against exceptionally long odds.

Two South Florida schools will be taking part in a world robotics championship.

The "Gulf of America" bills continue to clear hurdles in the Florida Legislature.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife team has given the newest addition to the Florida panther population a checkup.

A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs has been executed.

Trooper’s Law, inspired by the Florida dog abandoned during Hurricane Milton evacuations and rescued by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, moves along in the Florida Senate.

Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Meiner has decided to drop his resolution to terminate O Cinema’s lease.

A Florida bill under consideration by lawmakers would establish a public animal abuse registry to help keep offenders from owning pets in the future.

The future of O Cinema is uncertain after Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner pressured the theater to stop showing the Oscar-winning film No Other Land or risk eviction and funding cuts.

And then there were 1s.

Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points as fourth-ranked Florida won its fifth Southeastern Conference Tournament title and first since 2014 Sunday, beating the No. 8 Tennessee Volunteers 86-77.

A cry for help came from Florida's Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Director last week, who told lawmakers that Florida Highway Patrol is losing more troopers than it can hire, spent $10 million in overtime just to cover the gaps and now dealing with added responsibilities of aiding ICE.

Immigration enforcement is now local.

A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points, and No. 4 Florida pulled away from No. 5 Alabama for a 104-82 victory in the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.

Florida lawmakers are targeting squatters once again in new legislation that is expected to soon become law.

A Florida lawmaker’s proposal to crack down on automatic gratuity and service charges at restaurants is now part of a bill going through the State House.

Several states are considering moves to change how they compensate people incarcerated after wrongful convictions.

Using a bright orange Bambi Bucket, a Florida Forest Service team worked to put out a brush fire that has grown over the past few days in South Florida.

Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody want to move the NASA headquarters to Florida’s Space Coast when the lease in Washington, D.C., expires in 2028.

The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station.

More than five years ago, a 30-year-old Florida mother was accused of killing her 5-month-old son after he suffered head trauma while she was angry during a phone call with his father.

A Miami woman has been arrested after deputies say she went on a statewide stealing spree.

A Dania Beach attorney who court records show has represented multiple criminal defendants in Broward County is now a criminal defendant himself for what deputies said he did in a Dollar Tree parking lot.

Florida lawmakers held a hearing Friday to investigate whether some property insurance companies were exaggerating losses while profiting billions.

Lucas Glover never knows what he's going to get at the TPC Sawgrass.

The Florida Highway Patrol released a video Thursday showing the end of a chase.

The largest urban counties in the U.S. kept growing last year because of immigrants.

Cosmetic procedures are clearly advertised on social media by someone calling herself Dr. Victoria, but police say the business that was being run out of the second floor of office complex in the 1200 block of East Hallandale Beach Boulevard was bogus all because the operator was never licensed in the state of Florida.

A Fort Myers man got a very dangerous home invader over the weekend.

Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day the measure was signed, in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

A Silver Alert was issued on Wednesday for a missing 91-year-old man who police say was last seen in Plantation.

Families on the beach near Fort Lauderdale thought they were seeing a man being rescued from rip currents, but it turned out that he was being arrested in the ocean for armed robbery.

Trooper’s Law, inspired by the Florida dog abandoned during Hurricane Milton evacuations and rescued by Florida Highway Patrol troopers, has cleared another hurdle in the Florida Senate.

Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah, Georgia.

Hialeah police will soon assist federal agents in cracking down on illegal immigration as part of a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Hialeah police officers will soon be helping federal agents crack down on illegal immigration.

Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak is addressing concerns surrounding the city’s participation in the 287G agreements, which assist federal immigration authorities.

For years, sunny South Florida has been a home away from home for Canadians.

A proposal to build a homeless shelter in Broward County’s West Oakland Park area is stirring controversy, with residents rallying against what they see as an ill-fitting location.

The so-called "Gulf of America" bill cleared a hurdle in the Florida Legislature on Tuesday.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, spoke to Miami-Dade commissioners Tuesday about water fluoridation. He was invited to address the Safety and Health Committee by Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, its chair.

Two universities in Florida are among the 60 schools the Trump administration is investigating for antisemitism.