The Florida Department of Corrections, which oversees state prisons, meanwhile, says that “all staff and inmates in the path of Hurricane Milton have been accounted for,” in an update that it posted ...

As climate disasters intensify, the nation’s incarcerated population faces life-threatening risks due to inadequate emergency ...

Crews are making progress to restore power to millions of electric customers Thursday night.As of 5 a.m. Friday, 2,498,551 ...

WITN reporter Olivia Dols grew up in Lutz, Florida, just 30 minutes away from Tampa. Her parents still live there. Their ...

The Florida Highway Patrol is urging drivers to be particularly careful behind the wheel because of road conditions ranging ...

Manatee County saw some of the harshest winds from Hurricane Milton Wednesday night as the eye wall of the storm hit the area. Cities like Ellenton and Bradenton are now suffering serious damage.

Manatee and Pinellas counties did not evacuate jails ahead of the storm. Other jails in Hernando, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota ...

Severe wind damage is apparent in Manatee County where neighbors there thought on Wednesday night, they would take the direct ...

Manatee County saw some of the harshest winds from Hurricane Milton Wednesday night as the eye wall of the storm hit the area ...

The storm exited Florida's east coast early Thursday morning. See below for the latest updates as Sarasota and Manatee ...

At the Warner Bayou Boat Ramp in Bradenton, the morning before Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall, waters rose ...

But Florida Power & Light ( FPL) reports the highest number of customers still in the dark, more than 1.2 million statewide.