Members and staff of AFSCME Local 199 held a drive in June 2023 to get the amount of dues paying members past the 60% threshold created by a new Florida law. If unions fail to reach that threshold, they can be decertified and dissolved. | Daniel Rivero, WLRN

The pool house of the Casa de Muchas Flores is where scenes for the 1985 movie "Cocoon" was filmed. | Patrick Degnan, YourDigitalPro

National Park Service Data Manager and Ecologist Judd Patterson photographed this flock of flamingos in Lake Ingram in 2012, a sighting that helped launch a study that eventually concluded flamingos are native to Florida and should have protected status. | Judd Patterson, National Park Service

Patti Peeples tells her story to the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Feb 6, 2024, at the Florida Capitol. | The Florida Channel

Illegal street racers could face charges of up to $7,500 in fines and potentially lose their license for a year, under a new bill passed by a Florida Senate committee. | Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany, AP

Demonstrators on both sides of the abortion issue turned out for a Florida Supreme Court hearing Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. | Tom Urban, News Service of Florida

“I don’t think you could say, you can fly any flag you want except one or two. Then I think that would be maybe content-based discrimination,” Gov. Roon DeSantis said. | Office of Gov. Ron DeSantis

Sofia Vergara as infamous Miami drug lord Griselda Blanco in the talked-about new Netflix series "Griselda." Elizabeth Morris/Netflix © 2023

Colorado State University predicts 23 named storms this year and 11 hurricanes.