The Miami Job Corps Center, a lifeline for hundreds of South Florida’s at-risk youth, is abruptly shutting down, leaving students scrambling for housing and staff blindsided by sudden unemployment.

A Thursday commission vote authorizing a new land-use designation will kick off a far-reaching program to bring the city’s zoning code more in line with county rules that encourage taller, denser buildings up to one mile from fixed-rail stations such as Metrorail.

Hoping to ease the affordable housing crisis, Miami-Dade County elected officials broke ground on two developments in the edge of the Overtown and Wynwood neighborhoods. It will feature 276 units and it's backed by more than $6 million and a $500,000 grant from the county.

Despite laws that allow construction noise waivers only in emergencies and to avoid risks to life and property, records reveal that for years city officials have been rubberstamping applications, even for routine job-site operations.

As experts predicted, the nearly double-digit increases in the Palm Beach County tax rolls slowed this year after a three-year ride. Property values rose 7.7% countywide, a slower increase than in the past three years.

Senate spokeswoman Katie Betta said in an email that President Ben Albritton intends to revive the rural proposal next year.

City of Miami officials said Friday that the exterior walls of the playhouse could collapse because of a construction mistake that caused a partial collapse inside the building earlier this week.

West Grove residents are organizing their response to the contentious demolition and redevelopment plan of the Coconut Grove Playhouse happening in their backyard. They're hoping to push back against the commercialization of the space.

The popular nonprofit called 1909 is taking over 9,000 square feet on Clematis Street in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach for its new headquarters.

Miami Beach officials urged Florida lawmakers to vote down SB 1730, an expansion to the Live Local Act because they fear it would open the door for developers to overtake the coastal city's iconic Art Deco historic buildings.