The Orlando City Council on Monday agreed to write a check for more than $106,000 to the state to help pay for a $1.7 million study of a commuter train that would link Lake County with Orlando. The so-called Orange Blossom Special would run on existing...

Billboard lackeys Is state government more beholden to the billboard industry than the taxpayers? We'll find out. In a report released last week, a Tallahassee grand jury found that the Florida Department of Transportation had illegally issued permits...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the circumstances that led to Sunday's traffic disaster on Interstate 75. The Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday another victim had been found amid the wreckage...