Legislative

A state budget panel doled out $175 million for 238 local projects, and some of that money is South Florida-bound.

The Florida Wildlife Federation would love 2022 to be remembered as the year we saved the Florida Panther.

Key Largo businesswoman candidate Rhonda Rebman Lopez fell 91 votes short of unseating incumbent Rep.

Islamorada Rep. Jim Mooney narrowly avoided losing his House District 120 seat Tuesday, when he secured just 43 more votes than his closets Republican Primary challenger.

In the race to fill an open House seat in southwest Broward County, lawyer Hillary Cassel is the best funded, Todd Delmay, an LGBTQ activist, has the Sun-Sentinel endorsement, and Clay Miller likely has the youth vote locked; he’s the Broward Young Democrats’ President.

Only one other Senate District swung more heavily for Joe Biden than Senate District 35, according to MCI Maps, which shows the President garnered 74% of the vote in the southwest Broward County district.

Democrat Linda Thompson Gonzalez is up against incumbent Republican Rep. Chip LaMarca who bested her in the last election to represent coastal Broward County, now House District 100.

The contest to represent Broward County’s Senate District 35 is one of the most-watched in the state and Democratic Senate Leader Lauren Book’s June haul proved it.

If at first, you don’t succeed … South Florida lawmakers are bringing back some of the projects that fell to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ veto pen under the Local Support Grants.

Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book has a third video advertisement that’s going to be aired on television and cable stations in what her campaign calls a “six-figure buy.