Florida Gov. Rick Scott urged residents in and around the city to evacuate after forecasts showed the entire state of Florida and in particular South Florida in real danger of a direct hit by the Category 5 storm, the largest storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean..

Florida became the 36th State to legalize same-sex marriage on January 5th, 2015. Now 72% of americans reside in marriage equality areas. The first weddings in Florida took place in Miami-Dade county followed by other South Florida counties including Broward where massive weddings took place after...

A federal judge has declared Florida's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, joining state judges in four counties who have sided with gay couples wishing to tie the knot.

Florida clerks can start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in January -- but if they do, they could risk arrest and jail time. An anti-gay group in Hawaii is still trying -- and failing -- to stop marriages. And things are still looking bad for the National Organization for Marriage.

At least 1,000 people attended a candlelight vigil Thursday night for the 17 people killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. No words could sum up the emotion throughout the crowd. CBS Miami's Amber Diaz reports.

Thousands of sharks were seen throughout the coast of South Florida on March, 2013. Beaches had to be closed for a few days and many people enjoyed the unique view of thousand of sharks through the pristine waters of Palm Beach and Broward Counties.

Students at Winter Park High and across Florida walked out of class Monday in protest of the Parental Rights in Education bill, aka the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. A video of hundreds of students gathered outside Winter Park High in Orlando has been making the rounds on social media. In it, the students c

The Florida Reef Tract is the third largest coral reef in the world and a vastly important ecosystem for sustaining underwater life. Scientists are working to combat the crisis in the world’s coral reefs—that is, that human beings have lost 25 to 40 percent of the world’s corals in recent decades du

A gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The victims included students and adults. A heavily armed man in Parkland, Fla., northwest of Miami, returned to the high school that expelled him and opened fire with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the authorities said.

The Bonnet House is located in the heart of Ft. Lauderdale Beach and it's a beautiful enclave dating the early 1900's. The Bonnet House was built in several stages and was owned by a Chicago eclectic artist and art collector family who later on inherited the property to the Florida Trust who make th...