Regulation

After years of debate, the legislature is on the brink of deregulating a slate of professions. Cosmetologists to geologists to boxing announcers could...

Local city and county governments won't be able to impose new regulations on "businesses, professions, and occupations," and state law would preempt any…

Federal authorities have suspended the license of a Miami-area blood bank for violations that include improperly notifying donors who may have been HIV...

New management rules targeting lionfish take effect August 1st. The rules are aimed at ridding Florida waters of the prickly invasive species.Lionfish are…

Governor Rick Scott's office is continuing to push back against "cigar regulations" proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA wants to…

Environmentalists want to know what Governor Rick Scott's plan is on climate change. They say no state is more vulnerable than Florida to rising sea…

A new report shows the state’s environmental regulatory agency isn’t enforcing laws as much as it used to.According to a statewide group that represents…

Another attempt to impose stricter regulations on parasailing operators is in the works.It's prompted by the recent death of a second tourist in Pompano…

A young woman died earlier this week in a parasailing accident off of Pompano Beach. The 28-year-old was up in the air tandem with her husband when her…

Among the new state laws that took effect in July is a measure that’s dissolved local government prohibitions on beekeeping and put apiary regulation…