Forecasters have issued hurricane watches for parts of Cuba and Mexico as a cluster of storms located south of the Cayman Islands could strengthen in upcoming days as it moves north toward the U.S. The National Hurricane Center says the disturbance may become Hurricane Helene on Wednesday as it approaches the Gulf Coast.

A Florida Panhandle high school football player has died after collapsing during a game.

Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive growth in school choice.

Authorities say three Alabama men are dead from likely drowning after becoming distressed while swimming at a Florida Panhandle beach.

A piece of debris found in rural North Carolina is believed to be space junk, experts say.

Travelers are contenting with big crowds and flight delays on what is expected to be the busiest day of the Memorial Day weekend.

Florida heat. Enough said.

More than 15 million people from Texas to Florida are under threat of severe storms and the potential for more tornadoes.

A pregnant great white shark washed ashore on a Florida Panhandle beach on Friday, according to a news release.

Through the day, a cold front will reach the Florida Panhandle and continue its track over the area through the afternoon.

Multiple tornadoes touched down this week amid severe storms in the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Weather Service.

A Florida sheriff says severe weather has caused damage in his county.

A couple in the Florida Panhandle is accused of kidnapping a man, cutting his throat, robbing him and throwing him off a bridge.

A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed.

A man convicted of killing two women he met at beach bars in the Florida Panhandle in 1996 is set to be executed.

Police say two people were found dead following a shooting outside a McDonald’s restaurant in the Florida Panhandle.

Residents of the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton are digging out of the rubble after a deadly tornado struck the town, shredding mobile homes and ripping apart brick buildings along main street.

The hottest week of the year to date is upon us and it appears we have completely flipped the switch into the sultry days Central Florida is accustomed to.

A 9-mile stretch of Florida sugar-white sand in an unspoiled natural setting alongside the Gulf of Mexico is the nation’s best beach for 2023.

A 9-mile stretch of Florida sugar-white sand in an unspoiled natural setting alongside the Gulf of Mexico is the nation’s best beach for 2023.

Florida has executed a man convicted of breaking into a woman's home and stabbing her to death in 1986.

Officials say eight people were rescued at a Florida Panhandle beach as weather forecasters predicted a high chance for rip currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

A man convicted of breaking into a woman’s Florida Panhandle apartment and fatally stabbing her 37 times in 1986 is set to be executed next month.

A woman died after she was thrown from a horse at a rodeo in the Florida panhandle.

A sheriff’s deputy in the Florida Panhandle was fatally shot Christmas Eve during a standoff with a suspect who was being served a warrant.

Southwest Florida is getting some advice from the Florida Panhandle as it moves ahead after Hurricane Ian.

A teen bitten by a shark off the coast of the Florida Panhandle last week is recovering in the hospital and surrounded by her family.

Officials say nine people died over the holiday weekend from likely drug overdoses in a rural Florida Panhandle county.

One of the things that can be impacted during extreme weather is your car.

Officials say two people were killed and a third was injured when a small plane crashed near a Florida Panhandle airport.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference in the Panhandle.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Friday in the Florida Panhandle.

The FBI is assisting the search for a missing and endangered mother who was last seen Sunday in the Florida Panhandle, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds are racing across the Deep South _ killing two in the Florida Panhandle and leaving scattered damage to buildings and homes in their path.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis promises continued government aid to areas impacted by wildfires.

Hundreds of residents forced to evacuate as blazes in the Florida Panhandle threatened their homes have been allowed to return, even as three wildfires in the region have grown to more than 29,000 acres.

Huge wildfires in the Florida Panhandle have forced veterans at a 120-bed nursing home to evacuate.

Residents in 600 homes in the Florida Panhandle have been evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two houses and damaged 12 others, in an area that has spent the past three years recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.

Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Friday in the Florida Panhandle to give out millions of dollars in relief funds to communities in northwest Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference Tuesday morning in the Florida Panhandle.

A sheriff’s investigation refutes allegations that a Florida Panhandle teacher subjected her students to pornography.

A car driving in the wrong direction in the Florida Panhandle hit another vehicle, causing it to go up in flames and killing four people, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Rain chances are on the rise in Central Florida.

Tropical depression Mindy has dumped rain along the Georgia and South Carolina seacoasts during its trek over land and is now moving well offshore into the Atlantic Ocean.

A swath of the Florida Panhandle was under a tropical storm warning after Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall Wednesday night.

The tropics stay active.

Increasing rain chances in the Orlando area.

The remnants of Fred are expected to regenerate back into a tropical storm over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters Sunday.

The National Hurricane Center said Fred has regained tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico as parts of the Caribbean began seeing impacts from tropical depression Grace.

A Florida Panhandle church youth director is facing additional video voyeurism charges after his third arrest in less than two months.

A little bit of dust has arrived In Florida.

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy whose patrol car was found to contain a stash of narcotics has been convicted of planting drugs during traffic stops.

SpaceX has delivered four astronauts back to Earth, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

A cluster of severe storms has swept across Southern states, leaving at least one dead in Louisiana while toppling power lines in Mississippi and leveling buildings in the Florida Panhandle.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – An explosion and fire destroyed five garbage trucks and damaged two others at a sanitation complex in the Florida Panhandle. The flames erupted Sunday afternoon at the station in Escambia County, Emerald Coast Utilities Authority said in a statement. [TRENDING: 1 dead in Rolls Royce crash | Mom, boyfriend arrested after toddler drowns | How to get the vaccine in Fla.]No injuries were reported but five trucks were destroyed in the fire. Two others were damaged, and the authority was assessing all other vehicles for any further damage. The authority said the cause of the explosion is under investigation.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The Bay County Republican Party said it won’t recognize President-elect Joe Biden as legitimate unless President Donald Trump concedes and acknowledges that the 2020 election was fair. The Florida Panhandle organization's executive committee voted last month, deciding that its officials should not cooperate with Biden's administration. The organization said in a statement that the future of the Republican Party lies in Florida and that its members have an obligation to protect its conservative values, according to the Pensacola News Journal. Tonight’s (Dec. 7) vote makes clear that the Bay County Republican Party is prepared to continue to stand with President Trump and leaders that hold the conviction to fight for the American people and our Constitution," Bay County Republican Party Chairman Debbie Wood said in a written statement. The resolution, which was widely circulated on social media, notes the party would only refer to Biden’s administration as “President-imposed” without Trump’s concession and will encourage Bay County Republican officials to not cooperate with “an illegitimate Biden Administration on any matters that infringe upon the Constitutionally protected rights of our citizens.”

Elaine and Jack Hulgan pose for a portrait after riding out the hurricane in their attic, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Cantonment, Fla. Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally's rains threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday, as the storm's remnants continued to dump heavy rains inland that spread the threat of flooding to Georgia and the Carolinas. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)CANTONMENT, Fla. – The firetrucks and rescue vehicles kept passing her house even after Elaine Hulgan, 76, wrote “IN ATTIC HELP” on the front door. The Florida couple was trapped in their home after Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore Wednesday morning near Gulf Shores, Alabama, with 105 mph (165 kph) winds. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” Elaine Hulgan said. “When they kept going by and not seeing us, I told Jack, ‘Jack, are the four of us going to die in this house?’” Elaine said. Elaine Hulgan said they’re not sure where they might live while their home is being repaired, but they’re also thankful to be alive.

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)PENSACOLA, Fla. – Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used boats and high-water vehicles Thursday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, even as a second round of flooding took shape along rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains. Crews carried out at least 400 rescues in Escambia County, Florida, by such means as high-water vehicles, boats and water scooters, authorities said. Also on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said a new tropical depression formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters said the depression could become a tropical storm as it moves slowly over the western Gulf during the next few days. Meanwhile, Hurricane Teddy strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm in the Atlantic.

___MIAMI — A new tropical depression has formed in the Gulf just hours after Hurricane Sally left. There was no threat to land as of Thursday night, but the center says the depression could become a tropical storm on Friday. ___PENSACOLA, Fla. — Although once-powerful Hurricane Sally is no longer a serious storm, flooding is still a problem along rivers and creeks swollen by its heavy rains. ___PENSACOLA, Fla. — Rescuers on the Gulf Coast are using high-water vehicles to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. ___MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Though Hurricane Sally has passed, officials in Alabama and Florida are warning that the disaster isn't over yet.

As the system slowly moves away from the Orlando area, however, rain chances here will decrease a bit. Hurricane Sally’s northern eyewall is raking the Gulf Coast with hurricane-force winds and rain from Pensacola Beach, Florida westward to Dauphin Island, Alabama, the National Hurricane Center said. Stacy Stewart, a senior specialist with the National Hurricane Center says the Category 2 hurricane could strengthen further before the entire eyewall moves inland. Sally was a rare storm that could make history, said Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center. With Hurricane Sally expected to dump rain for days, the problem could be worse than normal, she said.

A curfew was called in the coastal Alabama city of Gulf Shores due to life-threatening conditions. The county includes Pensacola, one of the largest cities on the Gulf Coast. Landfall was expected on the northern Gulf Coast early Wednesday. Although the hurricane had the Alabama and Florida coasts in its sights Wednesday, its effects were felt all along the northern Gulf Coast. With Hurricane Sally expected to dump rain for days, the problem could be worse than normal, she said.

Waters from the Guld of Mexico poor onto a local road, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, in Waveland, Miss. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbrt)Here are the latest developments on tropical weather (all times local):___The Florida Panhandle is being pummeled by heavy rains from Hurricane Sally’s outer bands. The powerful, plodding storm was crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast at 3 mph (4.8 kph) early Tuesday. Florida’s governor declared an emergency in two western Panhandle counties. President Donald Trump issued an emergency declaration for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Astronauts returning in the early 1970s from Skylab, NASA’s first space station, did not feel well following splashdown, Hurley noted. Feeling sick “is the way it is with a water landing,” he said during the crew’s final news conference from the International Space Station. The capsule has been docked at the space station since May 31, allowing Hurley and Behnken to chip in with spacewalks and experiments. The plan is for the Dragon to undock from the space station on Saturday, a day before splashdown. “We won’t leave the space station without some good landing opportunities in front of us, good splashdown weather,” Behnken told reporters.

The death toll from Hurricane Michael has continued to rise more than a week after the storm ravaged the Florida Panhandle. Get the latest on the devastation along the Gulf Coast and the rest of your Friday news and weather. Michael death tollAt least 35 people have died as a result of the Category 4 hurricane, with the most recent death being that of a firefighter who was helping clean out his family's debris-filled home, officials say. UCF vs. ECUThe undefeated University of Central Florida Knights are hitting the turf again this weekend, hoping to bring home a victory against East Carolina University. Finally fallCentral Florida is about to feel the season's changes this weekend – finally.