A South Floridian will lead the state’s Bar Association, serving both lawyers and citizens of the Sunshine State in legal information and leadership. Michael Higer from Miami stepped into the job as bar president earlier this summer. He joins Gulf Coast Live to talk about the issues the Florida Bar, and the state's lawyers, will face in the coming year.

In three tweets this week President Donald Trump declared an all-out ban on "transgender individuals" serving in the military. Military leaders responded to what's been described as a surprise announcement by saying they won't change any policies for the estimated 10,000 transgendered military members without further direction from the White House. On Gulf Coast Live, two military veterans who are trans, and other trans activists in Florida, respond to the president's tweets and the status of

Summers in Florida can often find boxes of surplus mangos or avocados shared among friends and colleagues, when fruiting trees leave growers with more fruit than they could possibly consume. What can you do with the extra tropical goodness? Chef Jack Raben with Fogg Café at the Naples Botanical Garden shares ideas on how to incorporate those fruits into dishes you might not otherwise consider.

The Identity Fraud Institute at Hodges University hit the ground running several years ago after a private investigator noticed an uptick in the number of people contacting her to report they’d been targeted. She started working with local law enforcement and efforts toward fraud prevention and educational outreach grew into a partnership with with the University.

The opioid crisis has claimed victims—and lives—across Florida, from Miami to Manatee County . But reporter Stephanie Colombini with WUSF in Tampa tracked another way the deadly addictive painkillers are changing the lives of Floridians: she found a "skyrocketing" number of children being removed from their homes and placed in foster care in Sarasota and Manatee Counties is linked with the opioid epidemic.

With the 2017-18 school year about to begin and a handful of developments on the education front- we’re sitting down with the Superintendent of Hendry County Schools, Paul Puletti. We’ll tackle economic disparity and learn how the Hendry County School District meets those challenges head-on.

The fearsome Tyrannosaurs Rex could bite down with nearly ​8,000 pounds of force, almost twice as strong as the bite of the Australian salt water crocodile . That's just some of the findings from a Florida researcher who teamed up with a paleontologist in Oklahoma to model and test the bite of T. rex.

In the twilight of Gov. Rick Scott ’s tenure as governor, a Treasure Coast Palm reporter tallied his actions regarding the environment, asking: "Is Gov. Rick Scott a friend or foe of the environment?” The article lists millions of dollars for Everglades and springs restorations championed by Scott, but also show big cuts to state agencies and a 75 percent drop in the number of cases opened by the Department of Environmental Protection.

An underwater archaeology site on the bed of the Silver River, in the Silver Springs State Park near Ocala, is home to mammoth bones and other ancient remains dating back 10,000 years ago. First discovered in the 1970s, the history these discoveries revealed were dismissed at the time due to the perceived inaccuracy of underwater archaeology. This summer, a team of archeologists are diving there to "set the record straight."

The South Florida Museum announced the death of 69-year-old manatee Snooty, dubbed "the world’s oldest-known manatee," was the result of an accident that caused the aged marine mammal to drown. The manatee had entertained visitors in Bradenton since 1949.