Broward County

Florida's newly created 25th Congressional District covers a coastal stretch running from Delray Beach in Palm Beach County to Miami Beach in Miami-Dade County. The new district was expected to favor Republicans.

There are thousands of female-owned businesses in South Florida. City of Tamarac Commissioner Krystal Patterson is hosting a women’s business breakfast during October— which happens to be National Women’s Small Business Month. WLRN’s Sofia Zarran spoke with Patterson about the roles women owned businesses play in our communities and some tips for female entrepreneurs in South Florida.

United Way Broward’s Coalition on Behavioral Health & Drug Prevention and the Broward Suicide Prevention Coalition will host the inaugural Zero Suicide Broward County Town Hall on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Hazelle P. Rogers Multipurpose Community Center in Lauderdale Lakes.

Manley’s post in support of Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon encouraged people to vote for her. It then added: “Anybody not doing that, I promise you I’m going to cut your f— head off.”

Tuesday’s workshop meeting drew a large crowd of parents, students and local officials from various elementary schools on the list of possible closures, including Dolphin Bay, Lloyd Estates and Sherman Park, who oppose closing their school.

Broward is the eighth Florida county to confirm a locally acquired case during the current outbreak, which has mostly been limited to the Tampa Bay area – primarily Hillsborough County.

King tides flooded roads, businesses and the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk across South Florida. Here is how the moon, warm water, onshore winds, porous limestone and a strengthening El Niño can combine to make Florida’s seasonal flooding worse.

An FDA-approved anti-amyloid treatment is offering hope to patients in a state with the nation's second-largest Alzheimer's population, and one Pompano Beach grandfather is living proof.

The district was redrawn earlier this year when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-majority Florida Legislature reconfigured the congressional maps to help Trump and Republicans maintain their slim control of the House.

In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, said voters are focused on affordability issues. She sharply rejected the rising democratic socialist wing of the Democratic Party.

More than 1.3 million Floridians voted in person on Tuesday, pushing the primary turnout to just over 25%, according to numbers posted by the Division of Elections. In South Florida, turnout was even lower.

Incumbent Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz beat Oliver Larkin for the Democratic nomination in the newly formed 25th Congressional District. In the GOP primary, former Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer beat several other Republicans for the nomination.