The Orlando activist who spearheaded the movement to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated Floridians is retiring from the civil rights group he founded and led for more than 14 years.

Desmond Meade, 58, will step down Sunday as executive director of the Orlando-based Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. The group’s chief of staff will serve in his place until a search committee ...

A proposal to create a tax-free weekend for firearms and ammunition has drawn an unexpected critic: one of Alabama’s leading ...

Desmond Meade, who in 2018 led the campaign that restored the voting rights to Floridians with felony convictions, is stepping down as executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition ...

Florida lawmakers failed to pass a budget for a second year, but advanced conservative bills. See who won and who lost.

The HAVEN Act, filed as SB 296 and HB 269, would expand Florida’s Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of ...

Florida lawmakers removed provisions from a bill that would have required public disclosure for new data centers.

Oakland voters also decided charter amendments to change local government elections. Oakland voters re-elected Town ...

Florida’s chief of domestic security would have the authority to designate a group as a domestic or foreign terrorist organization if certain conditions are met, under ...

Florida’s 60-day regular session ended Friday — without a state budget and just 234 bills passed out of 1,896 filed. That’s 12%. Although lawmakers will return to Tallahassee in mid-April to hammer ...

Florida voters, acutely concerned about affordability, are ready to vote in favor of a dramatic reduction in property taxes paid by residential homeowners.

Florida’s political map is back on the chopping block. Gov. Ron DeSantis pushes mid‑decade redistricting that could hand Republicans up to five new House seats and sideline Democrats for years. What’s ...