The Latest Breaking News from Florida

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two well-publicized Carolina Hurricanes streaks continued Friday, with the team picking up its franchise-record 10th consecutive win while earning a point in a franchise-record 16th consecutive game.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An upheaval affecting the intersecting worlds of Florida government, politics and lobbying is forcing officials to choose: They could hold onto their positions in elected or appointed offices. Or they can keep their careers, or future career plans — as paid lobbyists.

Blaine Gabbert was out on water when helicopter went down in Tampa’s Hillsborough Bay

Linda Fruits, 33, from Sunrise, Florida, US, was scrolling TikTok when she realised she was attracted to a woman and had a “sexual awakening”, realising she was a lesbian

Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Florida gun-control activist and former Uber driver, won a resounding victory in the US midterms. Now he just has to find somewhere to live

Nick Day and his wife Shaina, from Florida, lost their engagement ring just before their wedding day but were astonished after a plumber found it lodged in a toilet 21 years later

SAN ANTONIO — When their flight from Tampa, Florida, was canceled Tuesday, Michael and Takisha Penix — the parents of standout Husky quarterback Michael Penix Jr. — drove for 17 hours to see their son.

SUNRISE, Fla. — Have a night, Aleksander Barkov.

While thousands of Floridians continue to be infected by coronavirus, state health officials already are treating COVID-19 as an endemic disease — with health experts clinging to hope that it has become more predictable, manageable and less deadly.