Florida Phoenix

In 1985, a book appeared called “Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village” by Ben Green. It depicted life in a Manatee County waterfront town named Cortez. Green, a native, bemoaned...

Tallahassee faith leaders are pressing Florida politicians to assist Haitian families under temporary protected status facing deportation and laid out a five-part plan encouraging voters to speak up and make immigration a campaign issue.

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Rev. R.B. Holmes Jr. sent a letter July 7 to U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody asking th...

The Byron Donalds campaign is playing down a lawsuit filed by a Collier County school board member accusing the front-runner for the Republican nomination for governor of Florida of threatening and intimidating her during a confrontation at a Naples grocery store in 2022.

Kelly Mason was elected to the Collier County ...

A three-judge federal court in Tampa Tuesday again dismissed a lawsuit originally filed by Florida College Republican groups and later joined by Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds challenging the statistical methods the Census Bureau used in the 2020 Census.

The Republicans alleged that a proper count would...

Instead of the state determining what will be taught in university classrooms, students must be free to hear and consider even officially disfavored ideas presented to them by professors, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

More than two years after oral arguments in a case challenging the 2022 law dubbed the Stop WOKE Act, two out of three judges on a U.S. Court of...