Gov. Rick Scott’s administration continued unveiling its proposed budget Wednesday, taking it to the Florida House Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Trudi Williams, R-Fort Myers.

Bottled water could get a few cents more expensive in Florida under a proposed surcharge to pay for environmental cleanup work.

With Florida facing a $2.5 billion budget gap, rising Internet sales over the Thanksgiving holiday renewed calls Monday for the state to join others looking to make it easier to collect sales taxes from out-of-state and mail-order merchants.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney takes to the campaign trail to help Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott on Friday.

With all 120 House seats up in November, there were some dramatic results in the Tuesday primaries.

New legislation aims to light a fire under Florida's lukewarm recycling efforts.

Blending a market-based approach with more rigorous reporting requirements, House Bill 7243 aims to move the state closer to its 75 percent recycling goal by 2020.

On the floor of the chamber that has stymied efforts to make Florida power companies drastically increase their use of renewable and clean energy, 120 advocates gathered Monday to make the case again.

The Florida Business Network for a Clean Energy Economy hosted a Clean Energy Congress Monday, with clean energy lobbyist Susan Glickman presiding. The scene was a far cry from 2009, when a bill that would have required power companies to produce 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources cleared the Senate, but was never brought up on the House floor.

The House sprinted toward the end of the legislative session Wednesday, tackling almost 120 legislative items in an lengthy meeting that extended through most of the day.

The House will be set to vote on the budget after 2:59 p.m. Friday in accordance with the mandate that there need to be at least 72 hours between the publication of the budget and the final vote on it.