Florida is booming. With more than 23 million residents and new arrivals every day, we are the fastest-growing state in the ...

Florida Senate poised to take up the bill this Friday, as developer Chris Dorworth pushes county commissioners to support it.

A fight over rural boundaries in Central Florida led to an 11th-hour amendment and a tense exchange on the Senate floor.

Celery Fields in Sarasota, Florida. The Florida legislature’s proposed budgets are set to severely restrict, or even defund, Florida Forever, one of the ...

Issues like housing affordability, water supply, wildlife protection, and rural development impact the daily lives of Florida residents and shape communities. As the legislative session in Tallahassee ...

Florida's Rural and Family Lands Protection Program (RFLPP) aims to preserve agricultural land from development. Since 2001, the program has protected over 225,000 acres of working farms and ranches.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida could be poised for a major boost to its rural communities. Lawmakers are reintroducing the ‘Rural Renaissance’ plan in the 2026 legislative session, aiming to boost rural ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A bill containing language that would have allowed property developers to get around county rural boundary requirements failed in the Florida Senate on Thursday. The Senate ...

The golf developer who last year received a fast-tracked, initial approval from top Florida officials to acquire a swath of protected state forest has now instead sold some of its land for ...

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Attorney General’s Office argued in a recent letter that rural boundaries in Seminole and Orange counties are “likely” unconstitutional and violate property owners’ rights, ...