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Florida ranks 49th in the nation in per capita funding for mental health services. According to U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services surveys taken…

The rise in opioid-related deaths in recent years has prompted Gov. Rick Scott and President Donald Trump to declare state and national emergencies.…

The Fort Myers Beach Film Festival is raising the curtain this week for five days of screenings, including a full-length feature film shot entirely in…

The opioid epidemic began making headlines years, if not decades, ago. But it’s on the rise still. The latest statistics puts the rate of fatal overdoses…

The Atlanta Braves are bringing their spring training operation to North Port, with an estimated $80 million facility. North Port City commissioners last…

Florida law enforcement will now undergo training to better understand individuals on the autism spectrum.House Bill 39, which mandated the training, was…

Florida records indicate that as much as 40 percent of new teachers in Florida leave the profession or go on to teach in another state within their first…

The recovery from Hurricane Irma is beginning to dwarf the storm itself: many are still without power, grocery stores are still lean on supplies, and…

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti last Tuesday as a powerful category four hurricane with winds up to 145 mph and leaving 1.4 million people there in need of…

Meeting in some form since 1962, the Florida Conference of Historians covers all historical fields and gives historians in and of the Sunshine State the…