Palm Beach County

The response comes after learning about a form the association requires students fill out before playing sports. It includes questions about genitalia and menstrual cycles. There is concern health privacy could be violated.

The Palm Beach Post’s Katherine Kokal outlined how the move has worried some about how the private health data is stored and protected. In this interview, she discusses the issue.

The ruling by a federal appeals court is effectively a victory for two family therapists, who challenged ordinances that barred treatment or counseling designed to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity.

A new wave of opioid deaths, fueled by fentanyl, is raising old fears in Palm Beach County. Meantime, sheriff's office policy on naloxone is an outlier in the state.

Masking up against COVID-19 is now optional for students in Palm Beach County. The move is happening a week earlier than planned.

Bud Howard, the Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District's director of information services, says scientists anticipated a signifiant amount of traces of the virus in the sewage system.

Now that the FDA has fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, some health care experts hope to see more vaccine mandates and more people getting their shots.

Miami-Dade, Hillsborough and Palm Beach remove parental opt-outs in defiance of the governor as President Biden calls for legal action against states that block health measures to protect students.

With the help of a West Palm Beach nonprofit, this teen made it through the pandemic and his high school career.

Opponents of the mask mandate went to the state's high court in February after a panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal rejected their arguments.