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WLRN News is among more than a dozen South Florida newsrooms and media partnerships receiving funding to increase their local coverage. South Florida has gotten drenched in the last few days.

Faith leaders will hold a candlelight vigil in Pompano Beach tonight [TUES] in solidarity with a long-time community member who they say has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Doral is embroiled in controversy over its immigration enforcement agreement with the feds – whose agents are stepping up arrests there.

We will discuss Palm Beach County’s rare budget pushback against its longtime sheriff, Ric Bradshaw — and the scrutiny Broward and Miami-Dade County’s top cops find themselves under (1:03). We also spoke to Hollywood City Mayor Josh Levy about why he’s left the Democratic party to be an independent (13:15). And we’ll examine the Venezuelan community’s anger about ICE arrests in Doral — and President Trump’s meeting with Delcy Rodríguez at the U.N. (26:50).

High-speed rail company Brightline has entered into a financial restructuring agreement that would help it reorganize its billions of dollars of debt — while other entities of the company are set to file for bankruptcy.

Palm Beach County is putting a pause on data centers.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we heard from Florida’s gubernatorial candidates on the top issues in this election including the property tax amendment (00:00). Then, we checked their claims with PolitiFact’s Samantha Putterman (13:22). Plus, longtime political analyst Susan MacManus weighed on the lack of state candidate debates in this election cycle (20:30) and looked at how Florida’s Live Local Act has been implemented with Ashon Nesbitt, CEO of the Florida Housing Coalition (26:20). And later, some health news including an update on Florida’s rise in dengue cases (37:20) and a look at what might happen when we find life beyond Earth (46:52).

Brightline’s parent company has filed for bankruptcy, but does that mean that the train company is going under? The answer is complicated. // Palm Beach County is putting a pause on data centers. // As Venezuela promises to hold elections eventually, critics are skeptical about how long they’ll have to wait. // A full moon and fall king tides are expected to bring flooding to coastal neighborhoods in South Florida over the next few days.

High-speed rail company Brightline has entered into a financial restructuring agreement that would help it reorganize its billions of dollars of debt— while other entities of the company are set to file for bankruptcy. Governor Ron DeSantis and other state officials were in Palm Beach County Thursday to hail the indictments of 20 people on voting fraud charges.

The Supervisors of Elections from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties recently came together to jointly remind voters and some important upcoming deadlines and election plans. Florida's attorney general has called for a Sarasota teacher to be fired, for what he described as harassment of a conservative middle school student.

South Florida is bracing for another round of King Tide flooding.

Brightline’s parent company has filed for bankruptcy, but does that mean that the train company is going under? The Supervisors of Elections from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties recently came together to jointly remind voters and some important upcoming deadlines and election plans.

The Palm Beach County Republican party is backing away from its public support of suspended county circuit clerk and comptroller, Mike Caruso. he Florida Department of Health in Broward County has confirmed a human case of Dengue fever.

Two South Florida workforce agencies are getting more than three-point-three million dollars in federal funding to help former Spirit Airlines employees get back to work. In the Gulf, an area of thunderstorms is being monitored for potential tropical development.

Leslie’s Incorporated, the decades-old national pool supply retailer, is shutting 19 stores in Florida after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Ten people allegedly tied to an illegal commercial fishing operation involving the poaching of fish, shrimp and turtles along Florida’s Gulf Coast have been arrested.

October 4, 2026. Dr Ester Morgan-Ellis is in town leading workshops on the tradition of American Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing.

Governor Ron DeSantis is touting the results of the Agency for Health Care Administration’s Medicaid Integrity Initiative. The Florida Department of Health is moving forward with a rule change to remove four vaccines from public school entry requirements

The latest on Tropical Storm Isaias, which formed early this morning in the Gulf. The Trump administration has deported a former Nicaraguan political prisoner.

This morning, Tropical Depression Nine strengthened into a tropical storm. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen is blasting Sheriff Gregory Tony for suspending budget talks with the commission and failing to fix problems at the airport.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri joins State Affairs' "Between the Lines with Dara Kam" this week to break down his opposition to Amendment 3, a high-stakes property tax measure on the November ballot.

Two South Florida workforce agencies are getting more than three-point-three million dollars in federal funding to help former Spirit Airlines employees get back to work. In the Gulf, there’s now a “near 100% chance” that a tropical system will form over the next 24 to 48 hours. Meteorologist Megan Borowski from the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network has more information for us.