News Service of Florida

The FDLE chief is stepping down after 38 years with the agency. Commissioner Rick Swearingen advised members of the agency on Friday he will leave the post this summer.

Calling it a move toward “curriculum transparency,” Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that will intensify scrutiny of school library books and instructional materials and impose 12-year term limits on school board members.

Florida’s employment picture continues to brighten, while the state jobs agency envisions conditions slowing to a more “stable” pace over the next two years.

A panel of three federal judges will consider procedural issues in April in a lawsuit seeking a court-drawn congressional redistricting plan for Florida.

Opponents of a bill that would change nursing home staffing standards are ratcheting up efforts to convince Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto it.

Florida’s first-time unemployment claims last week were slightly higher than during the previous three weeks, but the pace of claims continues to be similar to levels seen before COVID-19 hammered the economy in early 2020.

A Leon County circuit judge indicated Wednesday she will uphold a 2015 state law that would require women to wait 24 hours before having abortions, opponents of the law said.

More than two decades after pipe-bomb explosions shook Florida A&M University, a federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 54-year prison sentence for a man who was convicted of planting the bombs in what authorities said were racially motivated incidents.

Gov. Ron DeSantis waded further into gender politics Tuesday, issuing a proclamation that said a swimmer from Sarasota is the nation’s best “female” in the 500-meter freestyle after she finished second last week to a transgender athlete at the NCAA championship.

Students who enter high school in the fall of 2023 will be required to take a financial literacy course to graduate, under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.