Florida Keys

A plane that's been parked at the Key West Airport for almost two decades could have a new life ahead of it. It won't be in the air — it will be under water.

The state has already spent nearly $1 million on building the first pedestrian bridge over the Overseas Highway in the Keys. But now the state has scrapped the project, at the request of the Islamorada village council.

The clock from the terminal of the Overseas Railway in Key West recently returned to the island after 50 years on the mainland — and is now back in the possession of the local museum that owned it all along.

People have been drinking more during the pandemic. Almost a quarter of adults in the Keys were already heavy or binge drinkers. That's the highest rate in Florida. Now some in Key West are rethinking the hard-partying scene for a post-pandemic future.

The free range chickens in Key West are an island icon. But some residents are a little too fond of the fowl, leading the city to crack down of feeding them.

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

To spread the word about limiting the spread of coronavirus, the Florida Keys tourism agency is turning to some famous faces — one in particular: Ernest Hemingway.

A state senator from Bradenton has filed a bill that would roll back Key West's strict limits on cruise ship visitation.

Bars and alcohol sales in Key West will close at 10 p.m. on New Year's Eve and through the weekend. A federal judge Tuesday denied a challenge from a resident who said the curfew violated his Constitutional rights.

A museum in Key West has captured a sound "carried across the centuries" — the boatswain's whistle, or pipe, from the Santa Margarita, a Spanish treasure ship that sank in a hurricane in 1622.

There used to be a tradition of making homemade candy in Key West's Black community. Among the best were members of the Allen-Butler-Carey family — the ABC family.

Like a lot of other things, electricity is expensive in the Keys, because of the cost of maintaining the system to send power down from the mainland. Now there's a new effort to harness an abundant energy source — sunshine.