Florida Matters

WUSF's Kerry Sheridan and project editor Jessica Bakeman talk about the series of education stories and how vulnerable populations of students are facing the educational challenges exacerbated by the pandemic.

USF and Tampa General Hospital are helping run Phase 3 trials for a vaccine developed by Novavax. But it’s hard to get volunteers to take an experimental shot.

Visions of the future used to be flying cars, hovercrafts, robots easing our lives by doing our every chore. But like many things, the future isn't what…

As Gov. Ron DeSantis continues a piecemeal approach to stopping evictions, the questions are piling up about what happens if - and when - the relief ends.

Florida's public K-12 schools and universities are starting a new school year and while some students will be learning online from home, others are…

We're getting ready to have our first big election in Florida since the coronavirus pandemic hit the state in March. How will that affect the number of...

To open or not to open? That’s the big question as the new school year comes around –right in the midst of a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in...

Governor Ron DeSantis slashed a billion dollars from the state budget. And as the coronavirus pandemic drags on, future cuts are likely. That's the...

While most of us are still sheltering in place, trying to ride out the storm of coronavirus, well -- guess what -- a real storm may be just around the...

Forty-nine people died in the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando in 2016, but new information indicates that 16 of those victims may have been...