Nancy Klingener
ReporterNancy Klingener was WLRN's Florida Keys reporter until July 2022.
Since moving to South Florida in 1989, she has worked for the Miami Herald, Solares Hill newspaper and the Monroe County Public Library.
She is a Spring 2014 graduate of the Transom Story Workshop. She is on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar.
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The event will include a solemn ceremony Friday at the African Cemetery on Higgs Beach, and an all-day concert Saturday, with a parade featuring Carnival costumes and Caribbean music. -
For more than five years, a disease has been wiping out corals that provide the foundation for Florida's reef tract. Now it's reached the most remote and healthy area of the reef. -
The 13 men from Key West honored by the new memorial were among the nation's first Black marines and enlisted to fight in World War II - then faced bigotry when they returned to their island home. -
As people get ready to head out onto the water in large numbers over the holiday weekend, the state has released its annual report on accidents. The Keys are in the top spot — as they have been for 11 out of the last 14 years. -
After Monroe County's hurricane re-entry sticker program was abused during the COVID-19 checkpoint last year, the county came up with a new system — stickers that have bar codes and are color-coded by area. -
Key West voted to cut down on cruise ship traffic and ban the sale of certain sunscreens. In both cases, the Florida Legislature stepped in to overturn the island's precedent-setting moves before they could take effect. -
State wildlife officials are considering whether to allow people to catch and keep goliath grouper for the first time in more than 30 years. -
After being canceled last year because of the pandemic, the annual Hemingway Look-Alike contest is set to return to Key West, the island where the writer lived in the 1930s. -
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to help the Keys adapt to climate change would elevate almost 4,700 homes and floodproof more than 1,000 businesses. Total pricetag: $2.8 billion. -
One of the last ways to live relatively cheaply in the Florida Keys is on a boat, especially "on the hook," or anchored out but it's not the idyllic easy life that you might imagine. -
Boxes containing the eggs of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, water and a little food are being placed in six locations in the Lower and Middle Keys this week. It's the first trial of its kind in the United States. -
More than 20 people traveled more than 600 miles from the Keys to Tallahassee to make their voices heard on a bill that would overturn Key West's limits on cruise ships.
