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According to the Florida Department of Transportation in 2017-2021 statewide, Florida experienced more than 53,000 work-zone related crashes, including more than 356 fatalities, and more than 1,904 severe injuries.
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Property taxes collected through discretionary 1.5-mill local levies and allocated for constructing and renovating traditional public schools and buying land could largely go toward charter schools through the state budget.
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U.S. employers added 372,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%. Despite slightly slower job growth, the labor market remains an economic bright spot.
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Parents have questions about the COVID vaccine for their children. Plus, a big construction project bridging two communities. And one of the Florida Keys' few veterinarians published a new book.
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The Northern Turnpike Extension could run through the town of Royal. The community that stands there today is close-knit. Neighbors often gather for barbecues or bonfires, cars honk in recognition when they pass through the dusty roads and friends spend days chatting in lawn chairs.
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Home prices rose nearly 20% last year, in large part because the U.S. is several million homes short of demand. Builders say the pandemic is partly to blame, but the problem goes deeper than that.
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“Our investigation has uncovered additional entities, who along with the original defendants, we believe share responsibility for the Surfside collapse,” two of the plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a statement.
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Brightline has completed the first major construction zone in its 170 mile extension from West Palm Beach to the Orlando International Airport.
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Now the government is leaving, and moving the country's capital to the island of Borneo.
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The station symbolically ushers in a revival of passenger rail travel for the upscale city, which is now the scene of fancy new hotels, condo towers and offices for newly arrived businesses.
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Officials say the reconstruction campaign is an ongoing attempt to make the city more attractive to investors and to improve relations with the community.
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Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.