Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly backed the arrest on Monday, while anti-U.S. intervention protestors demonstrated outside Florida’s Capitol over the weekend.

Former Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence President and CEO Tiffany Carr pleaded no contest to two felony charges related to money earmarked for domestic violence shelters.

Attorney General James Uthmeier and two major business groups have urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed recreational-marijuana constitutional amendment.

Lawmakers are reviving a debate about whether the flamingo should replace the mockingbird as the state bird. They also want to make the Florida scrub jay the state songbird.

After Florida’s black bear hunt in December, conservationists could seek to add bears to the federal threatened species list.

Visit Florida reports a slight increase between July and September despite fewer Canadian tourists amid tensions between the countries.

Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade resulted in 52 bears killed, less than one-third of the potential number.

Backers of a proposed recreational-marijuana constitutional amendment filed a lawsuit Monday challenging directives by state elections officials that invalidated about 71,000 petition signatures.

Regulations to pet insurance and providing a database about animal cruelty are among a handful of changes in state laws that take effect at the start of 2026.

The proposal (SB 482) includes such things as steps to keep “harmful” content from minors and is being dubbed the “Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights.”