After a year of debate, the Broward County school board adopted superintendent Howard Hepburn's proposal to close or convert under-enrolled schools. The Broward District has seen its enrollment decline by 6.6% since the pandemic, according to federal data. [ PEDRO PORTAL | El Nuevo Herald ]

OneBlood is the first blood center to get full FDA approval to give high-titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma to those with COVID-19 who are also immunocompromised.

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

Arr! Gasparilla in Tampa is Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. Attendees can witness the "pirate invasion" as Jose Gasparilla ship sets sail at Hillsborough Bay

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released a report Thursday showing total enrollment was up 4.5 percent last fall with around 18.2 million students, 0.4 percent higher than in 2019. Some of the biggest increases were in undergraduate certificate programs, with enrollments 28.5 percent above 2019 levels.

Tampa and St. Petersburg are among the cities that have seen the largest increase in home prices over the last 10 years, according to a study from a construction analysis and research company.

There's only one city above Tampa in terms of home prices increasing over the past decade. Tampa and St. Petersburg are among the cities with the largest increases in home prices over the past decade,

Florida lawmakers have started filing what are expected to be hundreds of proposals seeking money for local projects and programs.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.

Elected as the state’s top law enforcement officer in 2018, Moody campaigned on a pledge to voters that she’d be a prosecutor, not a politician.

Kenneth Parker, the Executive Director of the Florida Strawberry Growers Association, said, fortunately, it hasn’t been cold enough to really hurt the strawberries at all.

In an abundance of caution, the CDC last week advised hospitals and labs to do faster flu testing to help identify possible bird flu cases hiding in the flock of rising flu diagnoses.