A permanent statewide sales tax exemption in Florida will apply to emergency items such as flashlights, portable generators ...

Permanently tax-free items include equipment needed for power outages like portable generators, gas cans under 5 gallons and ...

Most Florida schools will be starting as soon as they're legally allowed to, but you probably won't see any changed in start ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida’s new state budget goes in to effect today, but the new budget does not include a sales tax holiday for hurricane supply kit items. Instead, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in ...

The sales tax holiday includes dozens of supplies local emergency operations centers recommend you have on-hand in the event of a hurricane.

Barry and Chantel were short-lived tropical storms but their remnants caused killer flooding in Texas and North Carolina.

State Sen. Tina Polsky, who represents Parkland and the surrounding area in the Florida Senate, decries a sales tax holiday ...

When the Orlando Sentinel started investigating the payments, the DeSantis administration sent a threatening, unsigned ...

State Sen. Tina Polsky, who represents Parkland and the surrounding area in the Florida Senate, decries a sales tax holiday ...

When Sam Scribner and Katarina Mandiola discovered their roof was badly leaking ahead of hurricane season, the $30,000 price tag to repair it felt insurmountable. Scribner, a well-known photographer ...

The call to Skip Simmons, CEO of a mentorship program in Volusia County, came from out of the blue. One evening in December of 2022, he said, someone from the governor’s office phoned and told him to ...

The exemption applies to many commonly used emergency supplies, including batteries, portable generators, fire extinguishers, ...