Government Shutdown

Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans found themselves starting over on Monday — bumbling ahead with few ideas about who will lead, what they are fighting over and when they will get Congress working again.

The trails at the J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel will remain open even if Congress does not pass a bill to fund the government by midnight Saturday.Tarpon Bay Explorers, the refuge’s concessionaire, will re-open Monday, after being closed in September. The tram service on Thursdays will be open.The visitor center and restrooms will be closed. About 10 employees will be furloughed, Westland said. The park manager and law enforcement can still work.

As the partial government shutdown approaches the one-month mark, members of one branch of the military are feeling its effects particularly hard: the…

Florida airports are helping federal workers who aren't getting paid during the government shutdown by offering free food, holding a food drive and...

Amid the U.S. Government shutdown now going on 20 days, federal employees and their agencies in Florida are feeling it in different ways. Still, the...

Click here to view the interactive chartMore than a quarter of a billion dollars in economic activity was produced by national parks in Florida in 2017,…

Miami International Airport is closing a terminal this weekend due to the government shutdown because security screeners have been calling in sick at...

Employees of Florida’s federal prisons are asking the state’s members of congress to push for a reversal of the U.S. government shutdown. Workers held a...

Although the Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 st , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service ...