A dozen Florida Forest Service firefighters are going to help combat wildfires in Texas, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said Monday. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, more than 108,000 acres have burned during the past week outside Del Rio, San…
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The industry group Florida Realtors released a report Friday that showed the statewide median sales price in February for single-family existing homes was $381,481. Here were the median prices in the state’s metropolitan statistical areas: — Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island: $700,000 — Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach: $530,000…
Read More By The Numbers: February Home Prices In Florida
Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida, and Tampa Electric Co. are backing state regulators in a legal challenge by AT&T to a proposed rule about the use of poles. The three utilities on Friday filed a motion to intervene in a case that AT&T…
Read More Utilities Back Florida Public Service Commission In Pole Fight
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking members of the public to report freshwater turtles that appear sick, act strangely or are dead, as wildlife officials study a virus infecting softshells, cooters, sliders and common snapping turtles. The disease, turtle fraservirus 1, or…
Read More Florida Wildlife Officials On Lookout For Sick Turtles
Ruling against a group of restaurant workers, a federal appeals court Friday said service charges tacked onto diners’ bills at a Miami steakhouse are not tips. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court decision that backed Nusr-Et Steakhouse,…
Read More Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Florida Restaurant Workers On Service Charges, Not Tips
More than 1 million recreational boats are registered in Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The agency announced Friday that the number had been surpassed, with the most vessel registrations in Miami-Dade County, with 74,622, followed by Pinellas County, with 53,867;…
Read More Florida Tops 1 Million Recreational Boats
A group of voters is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit asking judges to set new Florida congressional districts. The nine voters are the same group who filed a similar redistricting lawsuit last week in Leon County circuit court. While that case continues, their…
Read More Voters Seek To Intervene In Florida Redistricting Case
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services posted data Thursday that said 1,529 Florida hospital inpatients had COVID-19, less than a third of the number a month ago. After a surge in cases and hospitalizations in December and January because of the highly contagious…
Read More Florida COVID-19 Hospitalizations Continue To Dwindle
Florida had its third consecutive week with fewer than 4,000 first-time unemployment claims, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor. The agency estimated that Florida had 3,730 new unemployment applications last week, down from 3,830 during the week that ended…
Read More Florida Jobless Claims Again Below 4,000
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill that will shield from disclosure information about applicants to become presidents of state colleges and universities. The bill (SB 520) creates a public-records exemption for identifying information about applicants for the leadership posts. Information about finalists…
Read More DeSantis Signs Florida Higher-Ed Search Exemption