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Florida fared poorly in a recent analysis and ranking of U.S. states when it comes to social and economic conditions for children. The 2015’s Best & Worst…

For more than 6,000 years, Southwest Florida's rich estuaries have been fished for food.

While the official first day of summer is just over a week away, the tell-tale signs of the summer season have already arrived in Southwest Florida. And…

This is a three-part radio series produced in partnership with The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.Florida has gone through some big changes in…

The Florida Soft-shelled Turtle is found throughout Florida in calm or relatively calm ponds, lakes, and canals that have a relatively sandy bottom. A male is much smaller than a female -- thus allowing him to be more maneuverable. A females is much larger thus allowing her to accommodate the many large eggs that she lays. With strong hind legs she digs a nesting hole, lays her eggs, and fills it in – without ever looking back. A broad band of tubercles -- scale-like structures -- occurs along the front edge of the Florida Soft-shelled Turtle’s carapace, distinguishing it from other soft-shelled turtles. Fish Crows and other predators often follow the slow-moving female as she seeks and digs a nest site. Sometimes predators take her eggs as she lays them.

Florida’s death penalty law and the fate of the state’s nearly 400 death row inmates remains in flux. Last week a Miami-Dade judge ruled that Florida’s…

Rich McKee is a retired college professor who lives and writes in Venice, Florida. He is the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Colleague Award from the…

Before last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expansion of Medicaid coverage to those earning less than…

Florida’s beaches will soon available for the entire world to see via Google Earth. The state’s tourism marketing arm, Visit Florida, has teamed with the…