President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to ...

In a move that further cements the Republican stronghold in the Florida House, State Rep. Hillary Cassel has switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, as announced yesterday.

Cassel, a Dania Beach attorney, said in a post on X that she supports House Republicans' "vision for a better, more prosperous Florida" and questioned whether the Democratic Party adequately ...

A second Democratic Florida legislator has switched parties ... Cassel is the second former state House Democrat to leave the party this month after state Rep. Susan Valdés (R) left the party ...

House Speaker Danny Perez on Dec. 17 appointed Valdés vice chair of the powerful budget committee. Mike Gottlieb via Florida House. Fellow Broward Rep. Michael Gottlieb, a Democrat and leader of the ...

A second Democrat reelected to the Florida House of Representatives this year has joined the Republican Party, further increasing the GOP’s supermajority in the chamber. State Rep. Hillary ...

“I will be joining the Republican Conference of the Florida House of Representatives because I believe in their vision for a better, more prosperous Florida.” State Rep. Hillary Cassel ...

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is set to meet US President-elect Donald Trump's advisers in Florida alongside Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc [File: Blair Gable/Reuters ...

Authorities from the Sunshine State signaled they may not have grounds to pursue charges against former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz after the House Ethics Committee released a bombshell report ...

Home prices could drop by as much as 15 percent next year in three Florida metropolitan areas considered at "very high risk" of experiencing a downturn, according to a recent report by real estate ...

When President-elect Donald Trump chooses people to be in his new administration's cabinet or serve as a U.S. ambassador, he seems to look for certain things. All of them are loyal Trump ...

(Jeenah Moon/Reuters) The House Ethics Committee found “substantial evidence” that former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz paid women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex and used illegal drugs ...