News Service of Florida

The Florida Department of Education is directing school districts to add artificial intelligence use to their internet safety policies. All districts already have an "Internet Safety" policy in place, and now the DOE is requiring districts to amend the policy to include AI.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday to expand the armed “school guardian” program to Florida's colleges and universities. The law builds on changes made in the public-school system after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

As Spirit Airlines ceases operations, resulting in 4,853 employees in Florida being laid off by next Wednesday, politicians are debating who is to blame for the Dania Beach-based carrier’s demise.

Gov. Ron DeSantis went on a renaming spree Tuesday. The spree came as he signed into law a transportation measure.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that moves oversight of the City of Naples Airport Authority, a special district. The local bill (HB 4005) requires the five authority board members to be elected by county voters rather than appointed by the city council.

Measles cases in Florida continue to rise but the rate of the spread has slowed significantly in the last month. According data from the Department of Health, as of March 21 there were 143 reported measles cases in 2026, with the majority still in Collier County. The week before, there were 139.

ttorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday his office will investigate Discord, a messaging platform, for allegedly putting children at risk of being groomed by predators online. The office issued a subpoena for information relating to the marketing of children, enforcing age-verification requirements, content moderation, parental control features and reporting of exploitative activity, according to the press release.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky on Monday said customers of the state’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. should receive an average 8.7 percent rate reduction, a larger cut than Citizens leaders proposed in December.