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Community immigrant rights leaders and allies are calling on Republican U.S. Senator Ashley Moody to fight for Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. The Miami-Dade County school board unanimously adopted a budget of $7.4 billion dollars yesterday for the 2026-27 school year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that the cyclospora outbreak that sickened hundreds across the United States since May has ended. The city of Miami’s first budget hearing was a breezy affair that saw commissioners approve many department budgets in less than an hour.

Although we reached the statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season last week, the tropics have all of a sudden come to life with activity. Hurricanes are just one reason that citrus land keeps vanishing from Florida’s landscape.

Online retail giant Amazon is suspending its partnership with the operators of the cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway last week and killed five people on the ground. A contagious and fatal virus is spreading among South Florida cats.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with the statewide president of the United Faculty of Florida about the Board of Governors' decision to ban undocumented students from enrollment at the state’s public universities (00:00). Then, we remember the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and how Florida remains deeply connected to the events of that day (20:00). Plus, a look at how PACs are spending money in Florida’s midterm elections (37:12) and we bid farewell to longtime host Tom Hudson (45:16).

Twenty-five years after the deadly terror attacks, South Florida still carries a unique scar from the hijackers who lived and trained here. This is South Florida Remembers 9/11. Reporter Danny Rivero helps us look back at the role our region played in one of the darkest days in American history.

Miami Beach City commissioners are evaluating whether or not a pedestrian bridge that was approved over 6 years ago will still be built.//A synagogue in Miami that began as a Jewish community center 70 years ago [1956] is shutting its doors.

We mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Not just the terrorist attacks that changed America forever, but the lives of the terrorists here in South Florida – and the Islamophobia that follows their atrocities even today (1:03). We’ll also discuss the Jewish High Holy Days that start this evening in the shadow of rising antisemitism (19:03). And we’ll talk with Miami Herald reporter Jay Weaver, who’s retiring after decades following South Florida’s often bizarre crime and crime fighters (34:35).

Today marks the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. Miami’s city leaders will kick off budget talks Thursday as the city figures out how to spend its more than $3 billion budget. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s push against major tech companies is expanding to include NETFLIX.

A Florida judge says that a Boca Raton nurse who used social media to publicly wish severe childbirth complications on former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt -- should be fined and formally reprimanded. The Miami-Dade County school board unanimously adopted a budget of $7.4 billion dollars Wednesday for the 2026-27 school year.

State Rep. Angie Nixon shocked Florida and much of the nation with a stunning victory in Florida's U.S. Senate Democratic primary.Outspent by her opponent 16-to-1, Angie shares how she racked up more than 70,000 miles traversing the state in her family's van — even changing her own tire — while wearing her trademark hot pink to spread her message to voters and how she's handling the ensuing fame.In this episode of "Between the Lines" from State Affairs, Dara and the candidate known universally as "Angie" discuss some of the most pressing topics of the U.S. Senate campaign. Amid Republican attacks regarding her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America, the candidate details where her stances align with the DSA and where they diverge from the organization.Plus, in this episode recorded just before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Nixon shares her view on relations between Americans of different backgrounds and how that historical tragedy shaped the makeup of the country today.Visit pro.stateaffairs.com/fl for more.

Police in Miami say a construction crane collapsed in the Brickell neighborhood. Forecasters are closely monitoring a disturbance in the central Atlantic. Space Florida says it's ready to compete for the headquarters of a U.S. Space Academy.

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed the state’s 17th death warrant this year. Four people were injured after a crane collapsed at a Miami construction site Monday.

Staff at the now-dismantled Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in phone booth-sized enclosures for up to two hours at a time, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security. Gas prices in Florida have reached more than $4 for the first time since June.

A middle school in Coral Springs might soon be named after the city’s slain Vice Mayor. Florida school districts reported about 600 books removed, restricted or discontinued during the 2025-26 school year. In Florida, A-I and data centers are emerging as a contentious issue in the race for governor.

In July of 2025, WLRN reported exclusively that the controversial migrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” was using harsh punishments on detainees. A federal watchdog has confirmed that.

A new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s independent Office of Inspector General, or OIG, corroborates complaints Alligator Alcatraz detainees made to WLRN from inside the Everglades facility. A legislative budget panel has approved another 240 million dollars for the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

National average gas prices have surged to a record four dollars and 31 cents per gallon this month. A man from North Carolina was arrested over the weekend in the Lower Keys after authorities caught him with undersized spiny lobsters.

A Pembroke Pines man has been charged in connection with the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president. Politicians across the United States are divided over how to regulate artificial intelligence as the technology evolves at a rapid pace.

We now know the names of five people who died in a deadly cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport on Sunday. A family member says all four relatives aboard a small plane that went missing off the Bahamas Monday were found dead.