West Coast

Roller coaster week for Detert

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 10:07 PM

State Sen. Nancy Detert was having one of her best weeks in her nearly 30-year career in politics. Then, things began going wrong.

Foster care bill named for Detert passes

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 9:49 PM

It allows youths to stay in the system until they are 21

Demonstrators in Ybor call for immigration rights

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 9:46 PM

Bill Nelson urges leaders to make voices heard about sequestration

Naples Daily News | Posted: May 1, 2013 7:30 PM

Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson made two stops in Southwest Florida on Wednesday, discussing the effect higher education has on the continued growth of the area’s economy.

St. Pete faces key vote on new pier project

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 7:21 PM

Charlie Crist to appear at event for Democratic St. Pete candidate

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 7:12 PM

NEW: Palmetto's NetWeave merges with British company

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 1:44 PM

Sarasota GOP members accuse party of accounting problems

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 1:43 PM

Sheriff's Office takes no action as external audit is ordered.

FWC accepting applications for gator hunt permits

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 1:09 PM

Florida House OKs medical malpractice bill

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 12:56 PM

Florida House OKs amended texting ban

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 12:37 PM

Hillsborough OKs plan to trap, sterilize, release cats

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 12:05 PM

3 more suspects in custody in Boston marathon bombings

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 11:40 AM

Texting while driving ban passes Fla. House; back to Senate

Naples Daily News | Posted: May 1, 2013 10:55 AM

The bill passed 110-6. It now heads back to the Florida Senate, where state senators can decide whether to keep an amendment tacked on to the bill or send it back to the House without the amendment.

IBM makes movie at atomic level

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 9:20 AM

Brewing uproar over Seattle micro-homes

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 9:05 AM

FDA eases limits on 'morning-after' pill

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 8:57 AM

Feds lower age limit to 15 and lift prescription need for sales of 'Plan B' brand contraceptive

Florida House Speaker: 'We're going to be here as long as it takes'

Naples Daily News | Posted: May 1, 2013 8:28 AM

House Democrats have slowed the final days of the session, asking for bills to be read in full.

Landowner to tribe: $4.9M for sacred land

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 8:22 AM

Rep. Castor says Head Start at risk due to budget cutbacks

Tampa Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 6:28 AM

Florida�s Head Start early education program will have to turn away 2,000 children next year if Congress doesn�t fix automatic, across-the-board spending cuts, Congresswoman Kathy Castor said.

Amanda Knox says what happened to her was surreal

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: May 1, 2013 6:10 AM

Home prices surge by 9.3%

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: April 30, 2013 11:32 PM

Florida still leading nation in foreclosures

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: April 30, 2013 11:31 PM

Business buzz: Manatee finalists; Englewood insurers; architechture alliance; 'unconference'; career training

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: April 30, 2013 11:30 PM

Tebow clears waivers, now a free agent

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: April 30, 2013 10:19 PM

NEW: Tensions rise as session nears end

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: April 30, 2013 8:21 PM

Florida lawmakers clash over Medicaid, kill a pension reform bill and reject a controversial education bill four days from session's end

NEW: Tourism industry sees renourishment as vital

Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Posted: April 30, 2013 8:17 PM

President of Sarasota county tourism bureau calls the sand infusions "routine maintenance"

House Democrats upset about Medicaid stalemate try to stall legislative session

Naples Daily News | Posted: April 30, 2013 8:08 PM

What upset House Democrats? It was the Senate’s passing a bill without debate Tuesday that would accept more than $50 billion federal dollars and offer health coverage to more than 1 million Floridians under the federal health law. The move sent a strong message to the House that the Senate isn’t backing down on a Medicaid expansion alternative, making a compromise unlikely in the final days of session.

Lee commissioners awards $4M to unkown Fortune 500 company

Naples Daily News | Posted: April 30, 2013 8:02 PM

As part of the agreement, the company - known as "Project A" in government documents - would commit to employ 700 people at an average wage of $102,000, and it would agree to build and equip a 300,000-square-foot corporate headquarters building at a cost

Hillary supporters at Naples rally were visible, even if she wasn't

Naples Daily News | Posted: April 30, 2013 6:59 PM

Only the people in the room at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort in Naples know what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to say Tuesday — or if she was even there.