Florida Keys

From her sailboat in the Keys, K Boswell records her brand of indie-pop, filled with electric guitars and electronic sounds. She is among the more than 100 South Florida artists who entered the beloved musical competition for 2025.

A holdover of the once numerous roadside attractions that lined U.S. 1 in Florida from Jacksonville to Key West, the Rain Barrel Village is a collection of eccentric, colorful buildings serving as a home for artists and art sellers in the Florida Keys.

The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday.

One sawfish died and three were reported in distress in waters around the Florida Keys in April.

A Florida Keys judge threw a surprising lifeline to a mentally ill man facing life in prison for killing his younger brother as he slept in his bed nearly five years ago. Daniel Weisberger was sentenced to therapy and decades of probation.

The massive brush fire in south Miami-Dade that has burned more than 26,000 acres is now fully contained as of Sunday morning, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials and Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava.

Thousands of south Miami-Dade residents are coping with road closures and dangerous air quality with the breakout of a massive brush fire. Only about 30% of the fire is contained.

One of NPR's best reads in 2020, Swimming in the Dark, is being adapted into an Opera. Act One is set to be performed in Key West this week.

The massive brush fire that began Tuesday in South Miami-Dade, causing authorities to intermittently close the two main roads leading in and out of the Florida Keys, continues to challenge efforts by firefighters to contain it.

With the governor's rejection of a new management plan, some rules, including a ban on cruise ships flushing greywater near troubled reefs, won't take effect.

Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

Gov. Ron DeSantis rejected the plan for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary that took 13 years to hammer out.