The Tampa Bay Times launched the Environment Hub in 2025 to focus on some of Florida’s most urgent and enduring challenges.

The 2009 deregulation allowed hundreds of new nursing schools, many of them for-profit institutions which have compiled a poorer track record educating students.

Advocacy groups have filed a class action lawsuit to challenge the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ decision to cancel commercial driver’s licenses held by around 20,000 immigrants in the ...

The California DMV is facing a lawsuit brought on behalf of nearly 20,000 immigrant truckers over the state's plans to revoke their commercial drivers' licenses (CDLs). The Asian Law Caucus and the ...

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Florida lawmakers have filed bills to eliminate the yellow registration decals on license plates. If passed, registration renewals would be recorded electronically, and law enforcement would verify ...

A South Florida man was arrested for what police believed to be an obscured license plate under a new Florida law. The man was later released from jail, with the Davie Police Department saying the ...

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Automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, are just about everywhere now. They’re mounted on police vehicles, perched at intersections, and embedded in streetlight poles across the country. Florida, ...

Read full article: Here are all the new Florida laws taking effect on Oct. 1, 2025 New penalties went into effect Oct. 1 DAVIE, Fla. – Serious legal concerns have been raised over a new Florida law ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The federal government is threatening to withhold millions of dollars in federal highway funding from Texas if the state doesn’t change the way that it issues commercial driver ...