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HIGHLAND BEACH The town commission selected an interim town manager to replace the one they suspended earlier this month. The commission voted 3-1, with Vice Mayor Miriam Zwick opposing and Commissioner John Pagliaro absent, to offer the job to former.......

Palm Beach County???s still-disputed judicial race --- now nearly a month old --- is continuing to draw attention from around the country. Now comes CNN. In his report today, CNN Chief National Correspondent John King says ???a local judicial......

Former Gov. Claude Kirk, of West Palm Beach, wants to return to Tallahassee. Florida???s first Republican governor of modern times isn???t preparing another run for public office. Rather, Kirk, 82, wants to be buried on the grounds of the......

Four highly competitive Palm Beach County political races will be spotlighted during a series of candidate debates that will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday at the South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road, west of Delray Beach. The featured contests......

County commissioners slammed the door Tuesday on a controversial proposal to build schools and churches on protected farmland in western Palm Beach County, even as one critic questioned whether the issue would resurface after the November elections. A...

UPDATED:The job pays $132,000 a year. It???s arguably one of the most influential, if little-known, positions in Florida government. The role: membership on the five-member Public Service Commission. Gov. Charlie Crist will nominate a new PSC commissioner...

???The Daily Show,??? the Jon Stewart-hosted merger of comedy and televised news, is preparing a segment about national politics based on the views of some south Palm Beach County residents. The show???s producers dispatched film crews and cast members......

Former state Rep. Joe Negron, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in the shadow of the Mark Foley sex scandal, said today he'd run for Ken Pruitt's Senate seat, which includes parts of Palm Beach County. Negron, who now......

Jay White, a West Palm Beach civil trial attorney, is set to become the Florida Bar president. He takes the oath of office for the post on Friday, during the Bar???s annual convention at the Boca Raton Resort &......

by Mark Silva and updated The threat of off-shore oil derricks on the horizon once made for great political campaign theater in Florida, where an aversion to near Gulf-shore drilling runs deep and where 27 Electoral votes are nothing to......

Two-dozen candidates for office in Palm Beach County officially qualified Monday to have their names appear on the ballot. There were no major surprises among the first day???s entrants into local races. The qualifying period for candidates seeking...

Palm Beach County political activists who were arrested in February for protesting a utility company???s expansion efforts face a court hearing in West Palm Beach on Tuesday. The Feb. 18 protest that resulted in 20 environmentalists being arrested was.......