Joel Engelhardt | Stet News

Twelve candidates seeking to fill an open seat on the Port of Palm Beach Commission will have to wait another month as port commissioners deadlocked 2-2 Thursday on how to proceed with the selection.

A permit to allow the first phase of constrution on the massive Southland rock mine in Palm Beach County’s Everglades Agricultural Area has cleared a key legal hurdle.

Palm Beach County Mayor Sara Baxter’s opposition toward Project Tango, which was announced at a town hall meeting, could complicate county’s April 23 decision.

Palm Beach County Administrator Joe Abruzzo is building a relationship with President Donald Trump. Or is it the other way around? The former Democratic state senator who became county administrator in August has gotten to know — and appreciate — the president over the past month, he told a breakfast audience of about 400 at the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce Jan. 23.

Community fundraising advances to second phase to raise $500 million toward downtown Vanderbilt University graduate-school campus.

The road aims to relieve congestion on Northlake Boulevard, pave way for apartments on a former mobile home park site.

The county’s largest city, West Palm Beach, added the most people since the 2020 U.S. Census, with 9,529 more residents, annual estimates released in October by the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research show.

Completion of a sewage lift station arose last month as the main obstacle behind the delayed opening of Nautilus 220, a $300 million waterfront condo building in Lake Park. Town commissioners are worried it could keep the building off the tax rolls for another year.

The conflict that started five years ago when Palm Beach Gardens began collecting a city fee from developers to help pay for local transportation projects and stopped collecting a county fee to pay for roads has spawned a new twist that echoes an old one.

More than a dozen years after an aborted attempt to add Dick’s Sporting Goods to The Gardens Mall, the mall’s owners have proposed bringing an even larger version of the national sports chain to the two-level space formerly occupied by Sears.

Palm Beach County’s unremitting growth and a relentless surge in property values are fueling a $457 million increase in local government tax collections for the upcoming year, data analyzed by Stet News shows.

In a stunning setback after the fiscal year began July 1, the Florida Department of Transportation cut the money it pays to maintain and operate 80 miles of track for Amtrak passenger trains, CSX freight trains and the Tri-Rail South Florida commuter service.