DeSoto County

The Florida Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seeks more information from local cities and counties.

By a narrow margin Tuesday night, a majority of the DeSoto County Commission voted to deny allowing biosolids sludge — the remains of human waste — to be brought into the county so it can be composted as fertilizer.The vote was 3 to 2 to deny a special exception for the sludge plan.

After successfully ending the practice of spreading biosolids, Desoto residents brace for the possibility it may return

Voting Rights organizations held a press briefing today to help Florida voters prepare for the coming elections.

Tampa-area non-profit Rebuilding Together to distribute free hurricane supplies Monday in Arcadia.

All 67 counties in Florida will take part and complete a vulnerability assessment and be eligible for inclusion in future iterations of the Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan, which proposes funding for the highest ranked resilience and adaptation projects across the state.

The river crested two days after Hurricane Ian plowed up the state dumping more than a foot of rain in some places. It is flowing over roads stopping and confusing travelers who have been re-routed off major north and south bound arteries, including Interstate 75 in Charlotte County on Saturday.

Mosaic Fertilizer wants to start mining for phosphate on about 18,000-acres of land in the Peace River Basin in DeSoto County, about three miles from…

New information on drug overdose deaths from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows staggering increases in deaths linked to opioid abuse in…