Hurricane Irma

U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas last week ended the case after attorneys for The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills and the Department of Health and Human Services agreed to the dismissal.

The state Agency for Health Care Administration website shows that only 17 nursing homes and eight assisted living facilities have not fully complied with the requirements.

A University of Miami study published this month found that while other sharks flee hurricanes, tiger sharks stayed put when Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas in 2016.

A new study by the nonprofit news service Climate Central presents another grim outlook for the elderly in South Florida: more nursing homes and assisted living facilities at risk from flooding than other coastal states.

Researchers found that the number of nursing home deaths within 30 and 90 days of Hurricane Irma is more than double the number of deaths reported by the CDC for the entire population of Florida.

Monday’s decision came more than three years after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air-conditioning system at the nursing home.

The Florida Keys has been battered by hurricanes, flooded by sea level rise and is gentrifying quickly. But one state lawmaker from Naples wants to add…

Authorities say the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general will be reviewing “questionable invoices" from three South Florida cities for…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that more than $44 million in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding has been awarded to 11...

There's a big pot of money coming to Florida from the federal government to help communities hit hard by recent hurricanes be more resilient in future...

Nearly 100 nursing homes and assisted living facilities were evacuated along Florida's East Coast ahead of Hurricane Dorian.At the time, officials said…

Initial reporting can leave lasting impressions after a hurricane — and that can be really damaging to a tourism destination.