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On this day 34 years ago Hurricane Andrew made landfall as a Category 5 storm. The Shark Valley Visitor Center at Everglades National Park is open again after briefly closing over the weekend because of wildfires. Miami-Dade County’s land conservation program is facing a major budget cut that could leave it crippled.

The Republican candidate in the race to become Florida's next Governor, Byron Donalds, publicly announced his choice of running mate: Hialeah state Senator Bryan Avila. A new survey of working-class Latino voters in Miami-Dade County finds many are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living, and immigration enforcement is adding to their concerns.

The Miami-Dade County school district is eyeing more than two dozen schools that have educators worried whether they’re vulnerable to closure or consolidation. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has provided free books to children across the U.S. for 3 decades – but its roots in Palm Beach County are fairly new.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

Work on a giant sand trap to help Broward County restore beaches was ordered to stop this week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed damage to endangered coral nearby. Nearly 30-thousand pounds of Argentine beef sold in Florida and Texas is being recalled by an Aventura-based company.

More than 1.9 million Floridians have already cast ballots for Tuesday's primary election. A new state investment is expanding speech and debate opportunities for Florida students. The rescue of an old sea turtle from the waters around the Florida Keys ended better than could be hoped for last week.

Former National Park Service superintendents are sounding the alarm after unusual orders were issued for all current superintendents around the country to attend regional meetings next month. A coalition of government leaders in Miami-Dade and Broward counties has launched a campaign to oppose Florida’s Amendment 3.

WLRN honors one of the greatest storytellers, Alan Tomlinson. He was an award winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer and director with the…

Work on a giant sand trap to help Broward County restore beaches was ordered to stop this week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed damage to endangered coral nearby. Tropical Storm Cristobal, the third named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean earlier today. More than 1 million Floridians have voted ahead of the August 18 Primary Election.

The South Florida community is again being asked to step up with relief donations after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. Seven Florida International University students are suing their school over allegedly violating their First Amendment rights. The maintenance backlog for national parks and public lands in Florida has grown to over $680 million, and the fund to pay for fixes is about to expire unless Congress decides otherwise.

More than 160 Haitian nationals were sent back to Haiti — making it the first deportation flight since the end of Temporary Protected Status or TPS last month. The West Palm Beach Police department is requesting over $100-thousand dollars in federal reimbursements for protecting President Donald Trump in the last year. A Broward County judge has ruled that it will be voters—not the courts— that determine the future of Deerfield Beach’s elections.

A leaked grand jury report says that the DeSantis administration misappropriated taxpayer money to oppose the unsuccessful 2024 recreational marijuana ballot proposal. Florida's public hospitals are at risk of losing millions of dollars in funding if the property tax amendment passes this November. West Palm Beach taxes are increasing next year - but emergency staffing is not. And the Florida DOH in Miami Dade County has issued a water quality advisory for Crandon Park.

Miami-Dade County schools kicked off this school year with nearly 19,000 fewer students than it had last year. Clinics serving Central Florida’s HIV community will lose federal funding in just a couple of weeks. The regular temperature in Miami hit 100 degrees this week - tying the city’s all-time heat record for the first time since 1942. The city’s construction workers are especially feeling the heat.

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A man who had the Cuban economy on his resume has recently died. The 12 jurors who decided whether Nikolas Cruz gets life in prison or dies have been selected. The city of Miami and other cities have been looking into the potential of underground tunnels to help ease traffic congestion.

Gender-affirming care ban; 2nd term for Florida's top doctor; school boards trending red; Artemis 1 launches

Dig below the strata of pop songs so ubiquitous you can't stand to hear them anymore, and you'll find plenty of riches in the Top 40, from country crossover to innovative R&B and classic pop.

Toni Morrison's 1987 work Beloved is the best American novel of the past quarter-century. That's according to a vote of writers and critics who were invited to weigh in with their choices by The New York Times Book Review.

More than 2.6 million people in Florida lacked health insurance at some point in 2017, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.