House and Senate remain $40 million apart on the Job Growth Grant Fund, a program that has steered state dollars to local infrastructure and workforce training
Florida's House and Senate remain $40 million apart on a state economic incentive program that has delivered infrastructure and workforce dollars to communities across the Treasure Coast. The standoff...
House and Senate negotiators have locked in five Tampa Bay corridors; no Treasure Coast infrastructure items confirmed in current agreement
Florida House and Senate budget negotiators have reached agreement on five Tampa Bay-area road projects in the Transportation and Economic Development conference, public documents show. With the full ...
Florida House doubles its local transportation offer as chambers inch toward deal — affordable housing funding gap could leave Treasure Coast projects dry
Florida's budget standoff edged closer to resolution this week as House negotiators doubled their offer for local road funding to $200 million — a figure that could direct significant dollars to Marti...
Treasure Coast residents' tax dollars will back 32 guard positions after House dropped its opposition in last-minute budget talks
Florida's House and Senate negotiators agreed Friday to fund a scaled-back version of Gov. Ron DeSantis' Florida State Guard at roughly $8 million — a fraction of what the Senate sought but a reversal...
Bipartisan budget deal would pay $1 million each to descendants of four Black men wrongly accused in 1949 Lake County case
Nearly eight decades after a Florida sheriff's deputy shot two handcuffed men on a lonely road and a mob riddled a third with more than 400 bullets, the Florida Legislature has agreed to pay $4 millio...
Lawmakers must finalize the state spending plan by Tuesday — or the constitutional 72-hour cooling-off period collapses the Friday vote
Florida lawmakers have one working day to salvage a budget deal. A constitutional deadline threatens to block the final vote on the state's spending plan and delay funding flowing directly to Treasure...
House and Senate agree on $15M total but split on how much should be permanent — a dispute that affects planning at Treasure Coast Jewish institutions
Two weeks into Florida's budget Special Session, the Legislature has agreed on how much money Jewish day schools should receive for security — but cannot agree on how much of it those schools can actu...
A state budget deal funds a 100,000-sq.-ft. sports and emergency complex at Nathan Benderson Park — a model some Treasure Coast officials may eye for their own facilities
Florida's Legislature has approved $10 million in state funding for an indoor sports and emergency complex at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota — a deal struck during Special Session budget talks that...
Governor calls special session starting Monday; Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River counties face potential revenue cuts if ballot measure passes in November
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday unveiled a proposal that would eliminate or sharply reduce property tax bills for most Florida homeowners with a homestead exemption — a change that could reshape local ...
A phased plan would raise the homestead exemption limit to $250,000 by 2028 — but a special legislative session must first clear a 60% threshold
A state-launched website now lets homeowners in Martin, St. Lucie, and Indian River counties punch in their address and see, in real dollars, how much they could save on their property tax bill if Gov...
Commissioners vote 4-0 to cut red tape, boost funding, and add teeth to clawback rules for county's most ambitious incentive push
The Indian River County Commission voted 4-0 Tuesday to scrap the reporting requirements and funding limits that had quietly strangled its local jobs grant program, replacing them with a structure cou...
