WASHINGTON — Florida is likely to become the next battleground in the nationwide redistricting wars after Virginia voters narrowly approved a gerrymander Tuesday that could net Democrats up to four ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Public Service Commission has approved a settlement agreement with Sunshine Water Services that will raise customer rates as part of a major wastewater infrastructure ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — More than a year after Hurricane Milton battered the Sunshine Skyway Bridge fishing piers, Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced a construction and repair project that anglers and ...

Florida has been widely seen as a red state, particularly since the emergence of President Trump in 2016 as a presidential winner. Trump won Florida in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and over that time period ...

A Brevard County School Board member was caught on a hot mic saying he hates transparency. Florida's Government-in-the-Sunshine Law requires public business to be conducted openly. Some officials ...

Florida has — or used to have — the nation’s strongest government-in-the-sunshine laws. The Legislature has riddled them with more than a thousand exemptions. More and more, officials are simply ...

The ability to see what the government is up to in the United States has plummeted. For National Sunshine Week in 2025, I wrote about secrecy creep, the adoption of federal secrecy protections ...

Increased fees for documents and stalled FOIA requests have made Florida state government less transparent. Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images By all measures, the ability to see ...

The Sunshine State became the 27th state in the United States on March 3, 1845. According to the Florida Department of State website, William D. Moseley was elected the state’s first governor, and ...

After losing his son Drew to Tay-Sachs Disease in 2019, Adam Anderson’s life took on a new path. He ran for local office in Florida and became a leader in rare disease policy, creating a new genetic ...

Florida state Rep. Adam Anderson championed the Sunshine Genetics Act, the first state-backed genetic disease screening program in the nation. Anderson's son, Drew, died in 2019 from Tay-Sachs disease ...