Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that initial assessments showed the state was spared the “worst case scenario” from Hurricane Milton, even though there was substantial damage.

On Florida’s east coast, Tampa Bay was spared the storm’s worst hit. While it got nearly a foot of rain from Milton, because it was on the northern side of landfall what was once projected to ...

Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, about five miles west of Sarasota, as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, the National Hurricane Center ...