District officials, teachers and administrators are aiming for a positive start to the school year at Escambia County's embattled Warrington Middle School, which will become a charter school next year.

Access to medication-assisted treatment is growing in Northwest Florida. In 2020, the Panhandle Comprehensive Treatment Center opened in Pace, one the first and few facilities to offer that treatment in that area. Within its first year, the facility was treating over a hundred patients.

Mariya Calkins and Joel Rudman, the Republican candidates for Florida House District 3 are profiled.

Escambia's five School Board members are paid $41,754 annually.

Two incumbents face challengers, one seat open in county.

The agencies serving Florida's two largest metropolitan areas report that more seniors are seeking housing assistance, citing circumstances like rent increases at an address they've lived at for years.

They want an appeals court to uphold a district judge’s ruling that said increased “solicitation” restrictions near polling places violate speech rights.

WUSF's Steve Newborn talks with Brian Corley, supervisor of elections for Pasco County, to answer some questions about the process.

Pointing to the First Amendment, voting-rights organizations Wednesday urged a federal appeals court to reject part of a controversial Florida elections law that prevents groups from providing food and water to people waiting in line at polling places.

It's not a new debate — but could showing graphic evidence of mass school shootings change public opinion on gun laws?

Freya the walrus became a popular attraction in recent weeks, despite warnings from officials that people should refrain from getting close and posing for pictures with the massive marine mammal.

The author is recovering, but it would be a long process, Rushdie's agent said. His injuries include a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye.

Jhunjhunwala, a chartered accountant from the northern state of Rajasthan, began investing in the stock market while he was still in college, starting off with capital of just 5,000 rupees ($63).

A man drove into a barricade and fired a gun into the air before killing himself, authorities said. He did not appear to be targeting any members of Congress.

Studies have long shown that Western parents speak a singsongy high-pitched language to babies. Now researchers have gone to the Amazon, to the Hadza people and more to see if it's a global thing.