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The Keys Immigrant Coalition is offering a free trilingual public workshop Jan. 24 for families, friends and supporters of migrants wanting to sponsor arrivals through the Biden administration's new parole program.

There are more boats on Florida’s waters, more inexperienced captains, and more people living in the state than ever before. Add to that mix new boat owners, most without enough education and training, and the results are proving deadly.

A U.S. Coast Guard video shows Key West crews returning nearly 90 migrants, including children, to Haiti on Sunday. Since October, the military branch has detained 3,060 Haitian migrants, a nearly 51% increase compared to the last fiscal year.

The haul of illegal narcotics was one of the biggest in recent memory, a reflection of increasingly sophisticated U.S. arsenal that includes powerful drones and special infrared cameras that can detect heat from small cocaine-laden vessels.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced that it will suspend its search for victims of last weekend’s boat tragedy off the Florida coast.

Authorities have found a total of five bodies, leaving 34 missing. The Coast Guard says it will call off its active search for survivors at sunset Thursday if it doesn't receive any new information.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 39 people missing for several days after a boat capsized off Florida's Treasure Coast. The boat was en route from the Bahamas -- and Coast Guard officials suspect it was used being used for human smuggling.

A rickety wooden sailboat that washed up in the Upper Florida Keys ferrying at least 63 Haitian migrants came directly from Haiti, some of the migrants told U.S. immigration authorities.

A Key West plumber, whose passion is metal detecting on island beaches, recently returned a lost treasure — after three decades underwater.

Emergency responders found a "severely overcrowded" boat early Sunday that had crashed into a reef off the shoreline. Officials believe it was a "smuggling vessel."

The Coast Guard came across a floating tiki bar off Key West Wednesday morning — and the operator was slumped over the controls.

Sara Faulkner has landed on an iceberg, traveled to the equator and rescued dozens of people in the aftermath of shipwrecks and natural disasters. As a…