A story of serendipity: How a beloved family home, sold after a grandmother's death, ended up — unexpectedly — back where it's always belonged.

Showdowns in Broward and Palm Beach counties between hospitals and insurers like Florida Blue and Cigna over contract terms are pushing patients out of network for coverage and disrupting care as the new year arrives.

The Florida Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a proposal by Attorney General James Uthmeier that would have allowed certain state government lawyers to practice in Florida for up to three years without taking the Florida Bar exam.

Fifty-two bears were killed in the first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade, far fewer than the cap the state had set, according to numbers released Tuesday by the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

President Trump's extended holiday stays and flurry of international diplomacy in Palm Beach have made for crowded skies in the area, including at Boca Raton Airport. The severe airspace disruptions continue at least through Sunday.

A bunch of Cotton Bowl coverage in today’s @sun-sentinel.com. Make sure you grab a copy. And there will be plenty more then next few days!

In early 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, executed what many viewed as a conservative takeover of New College, a struggling state school. For many, the jury is still out on the impact of the major shift.

A top Florida lawmaker questions why the state would delete 80% of the references to Hope Florida from the state Medicaid contract at a time when the program championed by First Lady Casey DeSantis faces heightened scrutiny.

Republicans in the Florida House are quickly moving forward on a smorgasbord of ballot initiatives that would ask voters to dramatically overhaul the state’s property taxes. Democrats view the proposals as the ultimate swipe against the independence of cities and counties.

The Florida Department of Transportation deleted its own social media posts that praised a rainbow crosswalk near the Pulse memorial for “enhancing safety” amid a controversial street art crackdown. The records came hours after the Orlando Sentinel sued the state for failing to release them.

A non-profit group uses urine samples and AI to warn law enforcement and other officials about drug-use hotspots. The system is being beta tested in Palm Beach County with plans to be used across the state beginning next year.

Florida has two state-run immigration detention centers, with another planned, and five run by federal agencies or contractors. Combined, they have space for more than 10,000 people. Some sites have empty beds, others are overcrowded. Here’s how Florida’s immigration detention centers compare.

Our sister newsroom in Orlando is suing the Florida Department of Transportation, seeking to compel the release of public records related to the state’s decision to remove a rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub where 49 people were gunned down almost a decade ago.

How a first-ever beard — sprouted as a good luck charm for the Florida Panthers — turned our reporter from a spotlight-shunning, stage-shy wallflower into an improbable Santa Claus. "The most memorable gift I am likely to receive this Christmas didn’t cost a thing."

Gov. Ron DeSantis takes two different approaches when a member of Congress or the Florida Legislature resigns or dies. Seats likely to be won by Republicans get quick special elections. For seats leaning Democrat, he delays for weeks. A new bill would force a consistent timeline on the governor.

More homebuyers have been backing out of home-purchase agreements in many parts of Florida and across the U.S., a new analysis shows.

A judge dismissed a complaint challenging Miami Dade College's decision to gift prime downtown real estate for President Trump’s future presidential library, clearing the way for the developer-turned-president to build a towering monument to his political rise in an iconic stretch of the city.

A federal judge has denied a request for a preliminary injunction to close an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, saying a detainee who asked for the order hadn’t shown he was suffering irreparable harm at the facility.

Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer launched a 2026 congressional bid Thursday, hoping to flip the swing-seat district currently held by Democrat Jared Moskowitz to the Republican column.

He was driving through Davie when an FHP trooper knocked on his window, informing him his license plate cover violated a new state law. Moments later immigrations agents swarmed the car. It's an example, some say, of how the confusing new law could become another tool to stop and detain immigrants.

It's been 25 years since America decided to save the Everglades. The restoration is over budget and behind schedule, but experts see improvements, and a light at the end of the tunnel.

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the U.S. has sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his order designating it and another organization as a “foreign terrorist organization,” saying the directive was unconstitutional.

From Opinion: A Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald investigation found that the DeSantis administration diverted at least $35 million from vital health care programs to fight two constitutional amendments — marijuana legalization and abortion rights. The administration must answer for it.

South Florida state Rep. Robin Bartleman filed a bill that seeks to rectify what she and other advocates say is a gap in the legal system that makes it easy for domestic violence perpetrators with restraining orders to avoid surrendering their guns, a flaw highlighted by a triple murder in Tamarac.

Gov. Rob DeSantis said that President Donald Trump’s executive order last week designed to block states from crafting their own AI regulations wouldn’t get in Florida’s way of doing just that.

Florida’s final elections of 2025 delivered a resounding rebuke to Republicans, with Democratic candidates outperforming President Donald Trump’s 2024 margins by double digits. Does that spell trouble for MAGA?

Fed up with your HOA? This bill would give Florida unit owners a path for eliminating their associations. Would you vote yours out? www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/13/r...

Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called for the state to become the first in the nation to eliminate all school vaccination requirements.

Local officials in Florida’s capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club, despite vocal opposition from local residents and historians.

Florida and Texas have filed a lawsuit challenging more than two decades of federal-government decisions that cleared the way for the use of abortion drugs — and said the availability of the drugs through the mail has interfered with state laws designed to prevent abortions.

Yes, South Florida is running low on Santas.

Florida cut more environmental protection jobs than any other state in the past 15 years, despite the challenges posed by increasingly intense hurricanes and sea level rise, according to a newly released national report.

Scott Maxwell writes in Opinion: “Even conservative leaders have quickly tired of an education official whose top priority seems to be trashing public education.”

Despite South Florida school districts receiving dozens of applications to locate Schools of Hope charter schools on public school properties, Gov. Ron DeSantis said today Florida would limit such schools to only the “toughest” locations.

A janitor’s discovery of rifled-through mail in a bathroom trash can set off an investigation into a South Florida credit card theft operation that amounted to over $600,000 in losses, according to a criminal complaint.

Democrat Rob Long is the newest member of the Florida House of Representatives, after winning an overwhelming victory Tuesday in a Palm Beach County special election. Unofficial results Wednesday showed Long with 63.2 of the vote%. MAGA Republican Maria Zack finished with 35.9%.

Democrat Eileen Higgins won the nonpartisan Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party’s nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Following the lead of Texas, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization.”

Heads up, Palm Beach County voters: Today is Election Day for some of you. There’s only one contest on the Dec. 9 ballot: a special election to fill a vacancy in the Florida House of Representatives.

Tell us what you think of the design selected by Fort Lauderdale for its brand new City Hall.

The DeSantis administration claimed that a donation to Hope Florida was not Medicaid money. But a recent Medicaid payment from Florida to the federal government indicates otherwise, a GOP state lawmaker said.

Palm Beach County is the latest to be accused by Florida’s chief financial officer of “overspending” and “overtaxing.”

The wild race to replace Ron DeSantis as governor of Florida now has 31 candidates. Columnist Scott Maxwell writes the GOP primary is “shaping up to be a bare-knuckle brawl.”

An alliance that includes the owner of the Miami Dolphins has formed to try to use electric air taxis to connect South Florida's counties with low-noise vehicles that soar above the congestion. Do you think it will work?

Despite a lawsuit challenging its actions, the board of Miami Dade College has for a second time voted to give away a valuable piece of property for Donald Trump’s future presidential library.

Eight more news organizations have filed a new lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking $10B in damages for violating copyright law by stealing their content to build and operate AI tools. The lawsuit joins a similar one filed by other news organizations that include the Sun Sentinel.

This 62-story residential building under construction in South Florida will be one of the tallest beachfront luxury skyscrapers in the country.

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A divided federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that Florida can begin enforcing a 2024 law aimed at preventing children from having access to certain social-media platforms, rejecting arguments that the measure violates First Amendment rights.

The judge overseeing a lawsuit against OpenAI brought by several news organizations — including the Sun Sentinel — ordered the tech company to turn over all internal communications with lawyers about why it deleted two massive troves of pirated books that it allegedly used to train ChatGPT.