Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

Responding to a request for flexibility in storm-ravaged areas, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday issued an executive order authorizing election changes in 10 counties trying to recover from Hurricane Helene.

A federal appellate-court panel heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Florida law requiring educators to use pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth, in a case that has drawn national attention from the Biden administration, teachers unions and LGBTQ advocates.

Saying the restriction is “fully consistent” with “historical tradition,” lawyers for Florida are urging an Atlanta-based appeals court to uphold a law preventing people under age 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns.

The Florida Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected an appeal by a Death Row inmate convicted of killing a Florida State University student three decades ago, likely setting in motion last-minute federal court appeals before a scheduled execution.

State elections officials are moving forward with an updated process aimed at providing more clarity for people seeking to determine if they are eligible to vote, after a federal lawsuit over the handling of a constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who completed their sentences.

A Marion County circuit judge has refused to vacate a death sentence for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed this month, rejecting arguments that a new law compensating victims of abuse at the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys should give the case a fresh review.

More than three months after a computer system serving as a backbone of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice was hacked, many contractors providing services to at-risk and troubled youths remain unable to access the network.

The federal government “has a strong interest” in a lawsuit challenging a Florida law requiring teachers to use pronouns that align with their sex, according to a brief filed this week by the Biden administration.

A 2023 law that lowered the number of jurors needed to recommend execution has resulted in a "quintessential game of chance" for inmates being resentenced because of changes in the state's death-penalty process and unconstitutionally “silences black voices,” groups are arguing in what could be a pivotal Florida Supreme Court case.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a key part of a 2023 law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that aimed to crack down on illegal immigration, finding the law “intrudes upon territory” under the responsibility of the federal government.

Saying his experience is “emblematic of the abuses running rampant in the world of big-time college football,” a former high-school star quarterback on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing University of Florida football coach Billy Napier, a top Gators booster and others of wrongdoing related to a $13.85 million endorsement deal gone sour.

Florida abortion providers and activists are girding for a law that will take effect Wednesday and prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, severely limiting access to abortion for women in the state and across the Southeast.