New population estimates show that U.S. growth in metro areas slowed sharply as immigration dropped and hurricanes pushed people out of some Gulf Coast counties.
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has sued a patient who refuses to leave a hospital room, even though doctors discharged her more than five months ago.
Environmentalists want to permanently open a dam built for a canal that was supposed to cut through the middle of Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf.
Congressional Democrats are warning that the U.S. Census Bureau risks undermining an upcoming test of the 2030 census by using a form that includes a citizenship question.
The Trump administration is eliminating four out of six planned locations for a 2030 census practice test.
Two former detainees at a Florida immigration center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” testified they faced punishment for seeking legal advice.
President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has contributed to a year-to-year drop in the U.S. growth rate as the nation's population hit nearly 342 million people in 2025.
Tourists are bundling up and warming shelters have opened as Florida experiences its coldest weather of the winter season.
The FBI says that an arson suspect admitted to targeting a historic Mississippi synagogue because it's a Jewish house of worship.
The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for a special session in April for Florida’s legislature to redraw congressional districts.
The teenage stepbrother of an 18-year-old woman who died on a Carnival cruise ship is a suspect in the FBI investigation, according to court papers filed this week.
Critics are warning that Florida's new social studies standards rehabilitate aspects of McCarthyism and the anti-communist Red Scare.
U.S. government lawyers say detainees at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings.
Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades are given color-coded uniforms and segregated based on criminal history and flight risk.
Attorney Ben Crump has announced that multiple people have contacted the family of Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, a 32-year-old man who died from blunt force injuries on the Stardust Racers roller coaster at Universal's Epic Universe on September 17, to share similar stories.
The Census Bureau plans to test using U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations next year during field tests for the 2030 census.
A woman has sued Universal Orlando Resort, claiming she was injured on a roller coaster at its newest theme park.
A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee disbanded by the Trump administration has reconstituted itself.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a dilemma over the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.
A federal appeals court panel has put on hold a lower court judge’s order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”.
The federal government has asked a Miami judge to pause her order to close an immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz."
A federal judge has halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades.
A federal judge considered whether detainees have been denied their legal rights at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count which determines political power and federal spending.
A federal judge heard arguments about an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”.
Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys.
Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell says a local Florida sheriff’s office isn’t doing enough to protect his multimillion dollar beachfront property from trespassers and is asking a judge for an order commanding deputies to do so.
A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week.
Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz."
Survivors and family members of the Pulse nightclub massacre nine years ago are getting a chance to walk through the long-shuttered, gay-friendly venue this week.
New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home.
Young children of divorce in the U.S. have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances of teen pregnancy and incarceration.
No place is more vulnerable to hurricanes in the 50 U.S. states than the Florida Keys.
Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.
The group run by Elon Musk that aims to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting U_S_ Census Bureau surveys it claims are “wasteful."
Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
Florida’s citrus growers are struggling to survive the one-two punch of hurricanes and disease.
The U.S. Census Bureau under the Trump administration has sought permission to delete questions about gender identity from a monthly survey.
Republicans are trying to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states.
Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general.
A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died.
Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.
The Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections for the U.S. population in 30 years to 372 million residents.
When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.
The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day.
A man accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in South Florida won’t be tried until September 2025.
The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups.
Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents.
Fewer grandparents were taking care of grandchildren, there was a decline in the number of preschoolers and more people were staying put in their homes in the first part of the 2020s compared with the last part of the 2010s.