Florida

After Hurricane Ian struck Florida, and North and South Carolina, its remnants are headed to Virginia, and West Virginia on Saturday.  On Wednesday, the storm struck Florida’s Gulf Coast, and on Friday, it thrashed waterfront Georgetown, north of the historic city of...

Hurricane Ian continues to batter Florida with many airports remaining closed and many flights being canceled. According to Flight Aware, a service that monitors flight status in real-time, nearly 2,000 flights within the U.S were canceled on Thursday, with Florida seeing the greatest...

Approximately 1 million properties in Florida's west coast, including Naples and Punta Gorda, could sustain significant damage caused by Hurricane Ian, totaling $258 billion in replacement costs, according to an analysis released Monday by Core Logic. More than 600,000 properties in the...

More than 13,000 people spent Tuesday night in shelters run by the American Red Cross and its affiliates around Florida in an attempt to flee Hurricane Ian. The storm, a dangerous Category 4 hurricane, is currently making landfall in Florida and will cause devastating storm surges, winds and...

Florida and other nearby states are bracing for Hurricane Ian, which is expected to make landfall in the U.S. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Here is a look at what theme parks, cruise lines and sports are doing to prepare for the storm. Hurricane Ian:  Tampa Bay, St Petersburg and the...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis recently made a bold, and frankly, much needed addition to the Florida public school system curriculum by signing Senate Bill 1054, titled the Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act, which will require high school students to take a financial literacy course to...

Raymond Dearie, the special master appointed by District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Mar-a-Lago case, called for external assistance to review over 11,000 documents recovered from former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, court filings done on Thursday showed. What...

Elon Musk on Wednesday named Florida's Republican candidate Ron DeSantis as his preferred candidate for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Reacting to Musk's statement, DeSantis said he is focused on 2022. "But with Elon Musk, what I would say is, I welcome support from...

Walt Disney Co's (NYSE: DIS) dispute with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to play out, as reports suggest the media giant has halted plans to move some California-based employees to the Sunshine State. What Happened: Disney has pushed back its original...

A Florida-based pension fund is challenging Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's potential $44 billion Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) takeover.  According to a report, a complaint has been filed by the Orlando Police Pension Fund in Delaware Chancery Court says that under...

The ongoing feud between Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) and Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis threatens to envelop Disney World. What Happened: DeSantis touched on repealing a 55-year old Florida law that allows Disney to govern the Walt Disney World. The governor’s comments came...

For a good portion of the U.S. — the world, in fact — it is about to get cold, really cold, and many a thought turns to sunny, warmer climates. Clear blue waters, white sands and tropical anything are beckoning. And for those who want the best of everything, below are five...

Miami, Florida, is set to be the first U.S. city to incorporate a blockchain-based decentralized solution to monitor air quality. What Happened: In an announcement at Miami’s DeCipher event last week, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said that the city would deploy an air-quality monitoring...

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez recently told the Wall Street Journal that he has been pitching Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining firms to set up their operations near South Florida's Turkey Point nuclear power plant. Turkey Point is not part of Suarez's jurisdiction, but he has...

May was a record month for container volumes at JAXPORT, the Florida port serving the greater Jacksonville area and beyond. Total container movements rose by 37% year-over-year in May to more than 128,900 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), beating a previous record of 123,700 TEUs set in October...