Florida

If Hurricane Ian follows a track near the center of the forecast cone, it would be nearly a worst-case scenario for the Tampa Bay area because the powerful winds in Ian's eyewall would plow through the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.

An evacuation order was issued for non-mission-essential individuals at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Meanwhile, U.S. 4th Fleet ships are departing from Mayport Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.

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A Hurricane Warning has been issued for the Tampa Bay area as mandatory evacuations have been issued for parts of the region.

As evacuations are ordered ahead of Hurricane Ian, it's important for residents across Florida to know if they are in a storm surge evacuation zone, so they can be prepared to leave when officials give the orders.

NASA's mega moon rocket will have to wait to launch until mid-November as engineers are preparing to roll back the Space Launch System rocket in preparation for Hurricane Ian.

NASA officials have called off the launch of its Artemis l moon rocket as Tropical Storm Ian approaches Florida. 

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After completing a fueling test of its mega moon rocket earlier this week, NASA engineers now have to contend with Tropical Depression Nine that appears to be aimed at Florida during the next launch attempt.

A boat captain has been charged with manslaughter in a Memorial Day parasailing crash in the Florida Keys that killed a 33-year-old Illinois woman and injured her young son and nephew.

A Florida woman rescued an abandoned dog while she was walking her own dog on Wednesday. 

Six-year-old Junie was born with a rare disorder that left him completely blind. He never knew what a firefighter looked like, but that all changed during a recent hands-on visit to a Plant City fire station.

Dozens of boxes and cans of Coors Light scattered across I-75 lanes in Brooksville after several semi-trucks were involved in a crash.

Venezuelan migrants flown from San Antonio to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard have sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his transportation secretary for engaging in a “fraudulent and discriminatory scheme” to relocate them.

A Texas sheriff on Monday opened an investigation into two flights of migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but did not say what laws may have been broken in putting 48 Venezuelans on private planes last week from San Antonio.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said its narcotics unit recently found enough fentanyl inside a home that could reportedly kill up to 1.5 million people.

The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz refused to step down Monday, rejecting a motion by his attorneys who accused her of being biased against their client and prejudicing the jurors who will decide if he should die for murdering 17 people four years ago.

NASA managers said Monday they are ready to check engineers' work fixing a fuel leak on the Artemis I rocket, which scrubbed the space agency's most recent launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.