South Florida Local News

Nova Southeastern University's coral nursery at its Ocean Campus houses corals for research, preservation and planting, in an effort to help save Florida's struggling coral reef populations.

At rallies across South Florida, frustrated activists protested the Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights. “What they did today is an abomination. This should not have happened,” said Elizabeth Ackerly, 71.

The tropical wave moving west in the Atlantic Ocean has a medium chance of developing into a tropical storm in the next five days.

As the nation reacted Friday to the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, patients and staff at South Florida abortion clinics went about their day ensuring scheduled procedures continued. But at moments, the gravity of the ruling weighed on clinic workers and they vowed to turn their grief into an ongoing fight for abortion rights.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill Friday that would have revamped alimony laws in the state.

The older generation in Florida remember a time when women secretly had abortions in a Hialeah back office or flew to Puerto Rico to have a medico perform a procedure. But Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case recognizing the right to choose abortion, has influenced the health care practices of women of younger generations who don’t know life without choice.

With the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision released Friday, overturning abortion and allowing states to enforce individual rules, reaction has been swift on social media.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to set the standard, will abortion can be banned in Florida? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday promised to “expand pro-life protections” following the decision.

President Joe Biden said Friday he would try to preserve access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Here are the key coronavirus statistics to watch for Florida.

Fourteen candidates -- three incumbents and 11 who would be new to the board-- are running this year in four districts.

Americans are reacting with anger, joy, fear and confusion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

President Joe Biden will speak from the White House about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion. Here is an overview of abortion legislation and the expected impact of the court's decision in every state.

Landmark decisions in the past 50 years regarding public funding of abortions in Illinois and the United States.

Read the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, that ended constitutional protections for women seeking abortions.

A barrage of attack mailers accuses Anthony Sabatini of surrounding himself with people accused of sex crimes.

Two days after the Nov. 3 election, DeSantis told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that legislatures could appoint electors.

Broward County has plans to contend with homeless boats, whose owners have left them to drown, tossed into a cove in the Intracoastal as a junkyard.

Nate Monroe was surveilled after he wrote critically about Florida Power & Light's efforts to purchase Jacksonville's public utility, JEA.