Budget

TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) — The House is poised to approve a $75.3 billion budget proposal after several hours of at-times testy but…

TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) — House and Senate budget plans released late Thursday and early Friday contained few surprises, with the two…

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The budget for the city of Jacksonville has been finalized. Mayor Alvin Brown returned the budget ordinances to the Jacksonville City Council today…

The Democratic-led Senate is expected on Monday afternoon to reject the latest plan from the Republican-led House. With a midnight ET deadline looming, it's looking as if a partial government shutdown can't be avoided.

The federal government has moved closer to the brink of a shutdown, as the House of Representatives approved a temporary funding bill Saturday night that the Senate and White House say has no chance of becoming law. Here's what the legislators are saying.

The Senate passed a bill Friday to keep the government open without stripping any funding from the president's health care law. Now the action returns to the House, where Republicans are tying the measure to defunding the Affordable Care Act.

City lawmakers pass a budget, TEACH brings teachers to Jax, and new documents in the investigation into Matt Shirk's office are in headlines this…

After about seventeen hours of deliberation and weeks of committee meetings, the Jacksonville City Council Wednesday night gave final approval to the…