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The average price of a gallon of gas fell 14 cents in the last week.

It’s been nearly five months since Hurricane Irma hit Florida. This week and next, an economic recovery workshop is traveling across the state, seeing…

Small businesses that are struggling due to the pandemic can once again apply for loans from the Paycheck Protection Program. More than 400,000 Florida businesses received loans in the first round last year.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved Florida’s request for a disaster declaration stemming from tornadoes that touched down in Southwest Florida in January. The declaration opens the door for impacted residents and businesses to apply for SBA disaster loans.

Most business owners in South and Central Florida think renewable energy makes economic sense, according to a recent survey from the Environmental...

Florida business regulators shut down a web portal launched to make it easier for the public to file complaints about businesses that violate COVID-19...

House Speaker Daniel Perez said Wednesday he wants to lower the state’s sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 billion a year.Perez, R-Miami, told House members he has directed Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, to produce a bill next week that would lower the rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.

Amid support from hunters and warnings of a “slaughter” from animal-rights advocates, state wildlife officials Wednesday moved forward with Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade.Before a crowd that spread into at least four extra rooms at the College of Central Florida in Ocala, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 for staff members to return with rules for a December hunt that would be held in four parts of the state and could lead to as many as 187 bears being killed.Hunters could receive permits through a lottery system.

Florida’s public universities and colleges have just two weeks to turn over six years’ worth of records on staffing, research and grant funding as part of the first formal information request under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly mandated Department of Government Efficiency — a sweeping effort to identify “inefficiencies” in higher education.The DOGE team outlined the first phase of its audit In a letter to university presidents. Institutions were instructed to submit a vast set of documents: every awarded grant application and agreement, all publicly available research or academic drafts and a full accounting of all non-instructional staff positions — including job titles, salaries and whether the roles are in-person, remote or hybrid.

President Barack Obama paid a visit to Jacksonville's port Thursday to tout his economic proposals focusing on the nation’s needed infrastructure…