TAMPA, Fla. — Five Tampa Bay residents filed a federal lawsuit to redraw Florida’s state Senate map. The 31-page complaint states Districts 16 and 18 are racially gerrymandered. The American ...

Southwest Florida Water Management board. By Seán Kinane/WMNF News (Dec. 2015). By Jim Saunders ©2025 The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Senate committee Tuesday will consider a plan ...

Sea oats and Tampa Bay. By Seán Kinane/WMNF News (Oct. 2009). By Jim Saunders ©2024 The News Service of Florida. TALLAHASSEE — Trying to fend off a challenge to a 2022 redistricting plan, Senate ...

A Florida Senate committee has unanimously approved a bill that would bring significant changes to the state's water management districts, with a focus on increased transparency and a renewed ...

In the Florida Senate District 29 race, voters opted to stick with a veteran Republican incumbent over a Democratic challenger who lives in Port Charlotte on Florida's west coast.

The race for Florida State Senate District 4 pits a relative political newcomer against a veteran state representative in the Nov. 8 general election. Sharmin Smith, a Democrat from Jacksonville ...

Under Florida law, congressional districts cannot be drawn to diminish minority voters’ ability to elect someone of their choice. Lawson lost re-election after the maps were implemented last year.

Veteran legislator Clay Yarborough won the Florida State Senate District 4 election Tuesday, unofficial final results showed. Yarborough, a Jacksonville Republican — most recently a state ...