Broward County

After redistricting, CD 20 is located entirely within Broward County. It’s traditionally been a primarily Black district, and was the main area Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to when he insisted certain Florida districts had been improperly drawn to favor race.

Dwindling enrollment means a smaller budget for the district. The 11,000 fewer students as the school year opens equates to about $100 million less in funding.

A measure to re-up a 2020 law that helped chip away at a $35 billion maintenance backlog at national parks and public lands, and set to expire next month, has gained bipartisan support.

Earlier this year, the Broward County school board closed six schools because they’re underenrolled. On the first day of school, neighboring schools are kicking off the year with students and materials they adopted from closed sites.

The federal lawsuit filed this week in Fort Lauderdale asks a judge to halt work until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers considers new information about coral and queen conchs in assessing potential damage from the project and ongoing dredging to maintain it.

According to a written statement from the office of Democratic South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Claudia Rodriguez Caglianone, 28, was released from federal custody on Monday afternoon.

Automatic license plate readers have become a hot-button topic in Florida's gubernatorial race as their numbers grow across communities.

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging the men for their roles in trafficking taxpayer-funded benefits across Miami-Dade and Broward counties from July 2019 through May 2026, prosecutors said in a statement.

More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children across the U.S., including hundreds in South Florida, could be forced to navigate the complex U.S. immigration court system without an attorney or legal advisor after federal funding ended Friday, warns the Miami-based Americans for Immigrant Justice.

"I am very concerned that there are 671 people in this facility that shouldn’t be here, that should not have been detained in the first place, and that the policy of the Trump administration that is putting them here is outrageous and unacceptable," said the congresswoman.

More than two dozen family members and former soccer teammates of Claudia Rodriguez — and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz — gathered outside the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach to call attention to her case in hopes of getting the Venezuelan immigrant released from federal detention.

The project to provide a steady supply of sand to eroding beaches has created plumes of sediment near one of the largest remaining stands of endangered staghorn coral and threatened queen conchs, while noisy excavators drown out waves along the popular beach next to Port Everglades.