News Service of Florida

A House Republican on Tuesday filed a proposal that would re-designate a road at each Florida state university and college to honor conservative leader Charlie Kirk, who was murdered last month in Utah. The main and circular FGCU Boulevard at Florida Gulf Coast University would be re-designated as Charlie James Kirk Boulevard.

About 40 percent of the flight attendants being furloughed by Dania Beach-based Spirit Airlines work out of Florida, according to letters the air carrier, which filed for bankruptcy last month, sent to the state Department of Commerce. The company announced this week it planned to furlough 1,800 of its 5,200 flight attendants nationally starting Dec. 1.

A House Republican on Tuesday filed a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to impose 12-year term limits on county commissioners and school board members. The proposal (HJR 27), which Rep. Jeff Holcomb, R-Spring Hill, filed for consideration during the 2026 legislative session, could refuel a debate about whether to limit terms of local officials.

With more than 100,000 permit applications submitted for a December bear hunt, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has reduced the number permits that will be issued — and the number of bears that may be killed — by 15. After saying last month that it would issue 187 permits, the commission has reduced that number to 172, according to its website. A commission spokeswoman didn’t give an explanation for the decrease. The decrease was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.

The University of South Florida College Republicans and the Pinellas County Young Republicans this week filed a federal lawsuit arguing that improper statistical methods were used in the 2020 U.S. census. The lawsuit, which names as defendants the leaders of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau, seeks to require a new 2020 census report that does not use the disputed methods and to prevent use of the methods in the 2030 census.

State regulators have finalized agreements requiring additional property insurers to pay fines because of violating claims-handling laws after Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Idalia. Documents posted on the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation website show that agreements known as “consent” orders, which were signed in August, required American Mobile Insurance Exchange to pay $400,000; Monarch National Insurance Co. to pay $325,000; and Tower Hill Prime Insurance Co. to pay $250,000. Combined with earlier agreements the result is more than $1.5 million in fines.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams has refused to pause her order requiring state and federal officials to wind down operations at an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Williams issued a preliminary injunction last week in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, finding state and federal officials failed to comply with a federal law requiring an environmental impact study be conducted before the remote facility was constructed.

State regulators last week finalized agreements that will lead to three property insurers paying fines for violating claims-handling laws after hurricanes.

The state Office of Public Counsel, which is designated by law to represent consumers, opposed a newly proposed Florida Power & Light rate settlement Thursday, saying it would increase FPL’s revenues by an “unconscionable” amount.