Broward County

Meaningful connections can come from anywhere. A grocery store. The dog park. Your church. Ahead of Valentine's Day, WLRN spoke to people in the community to celebrate all forms of love by sharing the moments that brought them to their loved ones.

Faith leaders across the county, led by BOLD Justice, held a news conference Tuesday morning in downtown Fort Lauderdale to raise awareness of the countywide affordable housing shortage. They say only one in four families in Broward County can afford a place to live.

Under the order, residents are reminded to follow local rules that restrict lawn watering to twice a week, before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m.

The large bonuses administrators received dates back to a 2022 referendum that was made to look like it would boost teacher pay. Neither the school board nor the public had all the key details about what the referendum would do, according to the audit.

The complaint is seeking a $10,000 fine and a public reprimand or censure for actions Tax Collector Abiodun “Abbey” Ajayi, took while running for office in 2024 while she was employed by Broward County.

The Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale has unveiled a new exhibit aimed at blending hockey and science.

The state's proposed changes to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program would leave more than 16,000 Floridians without access to their medication.

The Florida Immigrant Coalition hailed Monday night's decision to block the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrant as "a critical victory for families, workers, and communities across the country — especially here in Florida."

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted a request to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end on Tuesday.

The 340,000-square-foot Baptist Health Sunrise Hospital will be the system's first hospital in Broward.

The Trump administration wants to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitians back to Haiti — where a million and a half people are already refugees from gang violence. Legal experts spoke on WLRN’s South Florida Roundup about the resources and options for the community being affected by this decision.

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme cold watch for coastal Palm Beach County and a freeze watch for Miami-Dade and Broward counties.