Florida Keys

Around the country, monuments celebrating Confederate leaders and slaveholders are being removed from public spaces. Key West has a Confederate memorial in a city park — and now a city commissioner wants to change its name.

The Center For Biological Diversity has asked a federal judge to reconsider its decision to not add the rare skink, found only in the Lower Keys and Dry Tortugas, to the Endangered Species List.

In the Florida Keys, health officials are fighting to stop the spread of COVID-19. But they've also got another fight on their hands. For the second time in a little more than a decade, there's an outbreak of dengue fever on the island chain.

A plan to allow extra building units in the Keys has hit a snag. After Hurricane Irma, the state proposed allowing an extra 1,300 units for affordable workforce housing — as long as the residents agreed to evacuate early for hurricanes.

Rain from Tropical Storm Marco is likely to bring areas of flash flooding to the Florida Panhandle Monday and Monday night, while the Florida Keys get...

The center of Tropical Storm Laura is likely to pass south of Florida, sparing most of the Sunshine State any direct impacts. However, tropical storm...

The low-lying Florida Keys are one of the nation's most vulnerable areas to rising seas. Monroe County officials are starting to look everywhere they can for money to help pay the bill.

Key West Mayor Teri Johnston won every precinct in the city to defeat two challengers Tuesday and win a second two-year-term.

The Keys are set to become the first place in the U.S. to release genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the kind that can transmit diseases like Zika and dengue.

Residents of the neighborhood have complained for years about noise and litter from as many as 100 boats that anchor off White Marlin Beach.

A video emerged Monday from a 2018 incident showing police officers in Key West trying to handcuff a crying 8-year-old boy after an incident at his elementary school.

The Keys are facing some big bills to deal with rising seas. So the Monroe County Commission is looking — again — at an old idea to address these new challenges: putting a toll on the Overseas Highway.