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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.

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.

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.

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.

We now know the names of five people who died in a deadly cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport on Sunday.

New Miami-Dade County schools superintendent Rafael Villalobos is hopeful for the district’s future even with the challenges it faces. A family member says all four relatives aboard a small plane that went missing off the Bahamas Monday were found dead.

The wife of a man killed when an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport is suing for wrongful death. St. Thomas University president David Armstrong has resigned, and it comes after an investigation into his conduct was launched.

The West Palm Beach fire department is hosting its annual 9/11 memorial stair climb to honor the lives lost and first responders who answered the call 25 years ago today. A potentially dangerous mosquito-borne disease is on the rise in Florida, especially in the Tampa area. The Miami Herald has cut 30 staff positions.

The city of Miami is trying to figure out how to solve its so-called "Animal House" problem. A former University of South Florida robotics professor remembers her involvement in 9/11 search efforts.

Miami-Dade County’s newspaper of record, the Miami Herald, has cut 30 staff positions. A synagogue in Little Havana that began as a Jewish community center 70 years ago is shutting its doors. Two NASA astronauts who flew a mission around the moon and back are hanging up their flight suits.

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.

The US Department of Labor has recovered almost three quarters of a million dollars for workers at a Broward County restaurant. President Donald Trump is offering up his West Palm Beach golf resort as lodging for future presidents.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are still at Miami International Airport as they continue their probe into what caused Sunday's fatal crash of a cargo plane. Miami-Dade County's new schools superintendent Rafael Villalobos says he remains hopeful about the district’s future even with the challenges it faces.

Opinion: The rotting effects of Venezuela's half century of oil corruption made its industry easy prey for President Trump. But the real outrage is blocking the re-democratization that could fix that very flaw.On the latest episode of Americas Decoded, WLRN’s Americas editor Tim Padgett says that decades of corruption and mismanagement had made Venezuela’s nationalized oil industry ripe for the takeover President Trump just orchestrated. So the real outrage is that Trump intends to use the deal not just to hasten the flow of petroleum to the U.S. – but to stall the return of democracy to Venezuela.You can watch the video for this and other Americas Decoded commentaries on WLRN News’s YouTube channel at WLRN.org/Decoded.Subscribe to Tim’s Substack to receive his weekly digital commentaries at WLRN.org/AD.Sign up for his Americas Report newsletter at WLRN.org/newsletters.WLRN is South Florida’s NPR member station.

Federal agriculture officials say citrus land keeps vanishing from Florida’s landscape, down nearly 21% over the past year. The Broward County School Board approved a nearly $5 billion budget for the 2026-27 school year.

The wife of a man killed when an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport is suing for wrongful death. The Broward County School Board approved a $4.7 billion budget for the 2026-27 school year.

Over a hundred truck-driving schools across the country have been shut down in the past month as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on commercial drivers who are undocumented immigrants or do not speak English.

The mastermind of much of Venezuela’s epic corruption pleaded guilty today in a Miami federal court. A man from North Carolina was arrested over the weekend in the Lower Keys after authorities caught him with undersized spiny lobsters.

A newly released report from the Florida Department of Education shows about 600 books were removed, restricted or discontinued from public schools across Florida last school year. Today is National Voter Registration Day.