21+ hour, 34+ min ago   (246+ words) The University of North Florida (UNF) is getting a grant to help pay for artificial intelligence (AI) utilization in updating research software code. The Sloan Foundation is providing the Jacksonville-based school $105,000 to fund AI assistance in the School of Computing....

23+ hour, 36+ min ago   (329+ words) Tampa, Jacksonville and Orlando are among the top 10 cities in the U.S. for boomtowns, according to a new study released by the financial loan firm LendingTree. Analysts with LendingTree looked at the country’s largest metropolitan areas and considered factors such as…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (616+ words) An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran seeks to brief regional countries on its contested efforts…...

4+ day, 53+ min ago   (533+ words) Next week, Miami Lakes leaders may take a first step toward banning artificial intelligence data centers locally. The Town Council is set to consider an item Tuesday by Member Steven Herzberg that would trigger development of an ordinance defining and…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (368+ words) U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revved up the Republican National Convention with a call for an insider trading ban in Congress. “The American people elected a Republican Congress to fix Washington, not to profit off it or to tolerate its corruption,…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (308+ words) Disney and Comcast executives weighed in on the theme parks’ attendance — the good and the bad — when they both sat down for fireside chats during an investor’s conference. Attendance at Disney World and Disneyland jumped 3% over the Summer, the Walt…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (374+ words) Florida is the most dangerous state in the nation when it comes to fatal bicycle accidents, a new study has concluded. The law firm Breakstone, White & Gluck looked at national data for pedalcyclist fatal crashes between 2020 and 2024 to develop a…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (501+ words) Rising costs and unpopular Middle East embroilments are blunting the socialist label Republicans keep pinning on Florida Democrats, even with a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned candidate near the top of the Midterm ticket, Party Chair Nikki Fried says....

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (957+ words) Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro swore under penalty of perjury that her permit-expediting company has not pulled “a single permit” in the city since June 2024. Florida Commission on Ethics investigators then checked the city’s permit records. They found 132 permit applications…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (851+ words) Amendment 3 has spent the Summer being argued over by judges, sheriffs, county budget writers, and planners. Nobody has been selling it. Florida Realtors is rolling out Vote Yes on 3, the public campaign behind November’s property tax measure. The pitch is…...