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This is an ongoing entry for hurricane-related information. It will be updated as needed during the 2025 hurricane season.

Counties throughout Florida participate in Operation Green Light each year as a way to encourage people to finally take care of those cumbersome traffic tickets, court costs and resulting fallout.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has released May local and state unemployment numbers.Unemployment dropped a percentage point to 7.1…

A little more than a day after Hurricane Ian made landfall, Florida Power & Light knew how many of its 2 million customers are without power, and where they are, but company officials can’t tell most of those whose power was still out more than 24 hours later when to expect the lights to turn back on.“Daylight revealed Hurricane Ian’s utter destruction, and our hearts go out to our fellow Floridians whose lives have been upended,” said Eric Silagy, FPL’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We know the vital role electricity plays. Rest assured, we will not stop until we can get the lights back on.”Hurricane Ian came ashore near Fort Myers as a Category 4 storm packing sustained winds of 150 mph on a trajectory that would prove devastating for many reasons: the strength of its winds, its slow forward speed, and its meandering path that meant the huge storm touched nearly every place in peninsular Florida.Power had been restored to much of Southeast Florida, which was hit by Ian’s feeder bands for 36 hours, which is where many of the 750,000 customers who had their service turned on in the first 24 hours lived.

Local and state stakeholders meet Thursday to talk about how goods move through Southwest Florida. It’s the subject of the Southwest Florida Freight…

Governor Rick Scott is directing an additional $3 million dollars to fight red tide in five of Florida’s most-affected counties. That brings grant...

U.S. SenateREP: Rick Scott (current FL Gov)DEM: Bill Nelson (incumbent)Congressional District 16Western Manatee County and Sarasota CountyREP: Vern…

In the health news this week, Florida Department of Health is rolling out an initiative to provide overdose prevention kits, and the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is reaching more Americans than the previous 10-digit number.

A new study conducted by Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary found that groundwater levels in the sanctuary have dropped substantially over the past two decades, mostly due to downstream canals. Lower water levels during the dry season contribute directly to threatened wood stork nesting failures, reduce water recharge and wildfire protection benefits, and contribute to poor downstream water quality.

As we enter the eighth week of Florida’s annual legislative session, state and federal lawmakers are under pressure to address school shootings after the…