Patricia Mazzei | The New York Times

Some brokers and developers in the region are waiting eagerly to see if the election of a democratic socialist will drive more wealthy New Yorkers south.

In a city of often-zany elections, this year’s mayoral race in Miami is especially rich in personal stories and long-standing feuds, with big questions about the city’s growth and affordability — and basic competence at City Hall — at stake.

As many as a third of the 4.7 million Floridians on Affordable Care Act plans could drop them next year because of the higher costs, according to some estimates.

Three black-footed penguins named Daisy, Blueberry and Tinker wobbled outside their enclosure Sunday and found an unusually robust crowd of several dozen people waiting. It was the last day of the Miami Seaquarium, a South Florida landmark for 70 years, and residents came for a final glimpse of the beloved animals that reminded them of childhood

Prosecutors in Florida brought witnesses before a grand jury in Tallahassee on Tuesday as part of an investigation into a charity tied to Casey DeSantis, the state’s first lady.

At least once a week, María Mercedes Ortega, a 32-year-old real estate agent and spa owner, puts on a stylish ensemble and meets up with her girlfriends. Not to go bar hopping or clubbing, diversions she says she left behind in her 20s, but to play padel, Miami’s trendiest sport.

After months of anonymity, the leader of the unusual campaign, Michael B. Fernández, has decided to go public for the first time, explaining why he is spending millions — or even tens of millions — of his fortune on the ads.

Florida has started to pay for plane tickets for certain unauthorized immigrants to self-deport, officials said this week, in what appears to be the first such program run in part by a state.

As chief of staff to Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, James Uthmeier worked behind the scenes to cement the Republican governor’s national reputation as a culture warrior. DeSantis rewarded him this year by appointing him attorney general.

The first deportation flights from Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades began departing this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday. About 100 of those detainees were deported directly from the center, the governor said, though he did not specify where they were taken.

MIAMI — Miami city commissioners violated the Florida Constitution when they voted last month to postpone this fall’s election to November 2026, a state judge ruled Monday, saying that such a change required voter approval.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida would normally be traversing the state this time of year, trumpeting his legislative accomplishments and the fellow Republican lawmakers who had fallen in line to achieve them. This year has been different, mostly because of one man: the Republican speaker of the state House of Representatives Daniel Perez.