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Markeishia Smith of Haines City filed just before the qualifying deadline to challenge incumbent Martha Santiago in the District 4 race.

Horace West is running as a Democrat in District 51. He joins two Republicans, state Rep. Josie Tomkow of Polk City and Bill Olson of Davenport.

The governor is trying to build a coalition of Republicans more loyal to him than their own Senate leadership.

Sunburn — there's no better way to get up to speed in the morning!

Torres’ move came a day after Dennis Ross of Lakeland announced Monday that he was withdrawing from the race.

Dennis Ross and Annette Taddeo took different paths to the same result.

She served as Senate Appropriations Committee Chair during Simpson's two years as Senate President.

Jerry Torres is the eighth Republican in the race for an open seat in the newly redrawn district, which includes western Lakeland.

Veteran Jason Bacon is launching Green Beret PAC on Memorial Day to promote the Army Special Forces veterans who are running for Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.

Six months after the world agreed in Glasgow to a U.N. climate pact with bold, new targets, political and business leaders facing an energy crisis, volatile markets and an economic downturn are grappling with how to cut carbon emissions. Amid soaring oil and gas prices triggered by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, some countries ...