The Big Tent

A group of protesters accosted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi outside the screening of the new documentary about Mister Rogers at the Tampa Theatre on Friday night, questioning her about her recent actions on health care policy and her ...

At least 10 newborns and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed in so-called "tender-age shelters" near Miami, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the Miami Herald on Saturday.The Florida...

Hold onto your beads — Florida’s largest LGBTQ celebration kicks off Friday. The rainbow flag has been raised and marchers are ready to strut in the 16th annual St. Pete Pride Parade. Stay tuned with the Tampa Bay Times’ live cover...

As four federal lawmakers from Florida walked into the Homestead shelter housing 1,179 migrant children, five Miami-Dade and state elected officials were denied access to the facility on Saturday.The five state and local Democrats who wanted to asses...

TAMPA – All three Hillsborough County commissioners seeking to stay in office will face election battles  this year.The contest for District 4 will be between incumbent Republican Stacy White and Democrat Andrew Davis, who runs an onl...

TAMPA – Two weeks after her surprise withdrawal from the race for a Hillsborough County Commission seat, Republican Commission Chairwoman Sandy Murman dropped another political bombshell Friday by filing to run for Clerk of the Circuit Cou...

State officials will consider private bids to build a high-speed rail link between Tampa and Orlando, reviving a dormant project to link the two cities, Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday.Brightline, the high-speed railroad linking Miami and West Palm ...

Several dozen boys, many of whom were wearing gray, government-issued T-shirts and navy blue shorts, walked out of a tan building labeled "DINING HALL" after breakfast. Behind metal barricades, the boys formed a single-file line on the way to their n...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida may or may not see a blue wave this fall, but it's already experiencing a new wave.A flood of new candidates for seats in the state Legislature, many of them Democratic women, met Friday's deadline to get on the ballot and...

In case there was any remaining doubt of where the president stood in the race for Florida's next governor, he cleared things up Friday morning with a tweet.Congressman Ron DeSantis, a top student at Yale and Harvard Law School, is running for Govern...