government shutdown

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) hosted a press event Friday to highlight his accomplishments over the past two years, but he spent most of his time…

Florida’s National Parks are being affected by the partial government shutdown. The shutdown, which started last Friday, has left national parks with…

University of North Florida biologist Dr. Julie Richmond is headed to Antarctica to study Weddell Seals.Richardson had been worried that her long dreamed…

Common Core meetings to kick off this week, escaped convicts caught as hunt turns to their accomplices, and Duval County's new education lobbyist are in…

Americans who were already tired of partisan bickering endured a lot more this past month. But it's unlikely the budget package that reopened the government is going to do anything to end the rancor.

More than a month before the Jan. 15 deadline on government spending expires, a bipartisan, bicameral committee is expected to produce a compromise budget.

New traffic pattern for gameday Sunday, Mayor Brown trying to make events easier to launch, and emergency highway call boxes being removed from state…

The government shutdown ended Thursday, but the deal may have come too late to save one University of North Florida professor’s dream project for this…

After weeks of partisan bickering and a very public airing of deep divisions within the Republican party, the bipartisan deal brings to an end an episode that once again exposed Washington gridlock at its worst. President Obama said he would sign the bill and open the government immediately.

Careers and reputations are often forged in crisis, and the government shutdown and debt ceiling tumult that has gripped Washington for weeks is one of those moments.