Monroe County

All five commissioners, in a joint statement, said they could not support the changes, "especially after hearing from the public and receiving public comment throughout the week."

The new budget is $43.6 million less than the previous year and reflects a focus on efficiency and strengthening reserves while maintaining core services, the commissioners said in a statement on Wednesday night.

The Key West Business Guild is holding a meeting Thursday night to talk about the future of the city's iconic rainbow crosswalks amid threats from DeSantis administration officials to remove them.

COVID-19 changed commuting patterns. Most workers are back on the road at least some of the time, but work-from-home has helped shorten average commute times in some of South Florida.

A sharp rise in ocean temperatures this month has scientists keeping a close watch on coral reefs suffering from water persistently warmed by climate change.

Grossman retired from WLRN on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, when he aired his last four-hour "Night Train" show live from the station's main studio in downtown Miami.

A thirty-five-pound green sea turtle named Haven that spent the last six months in rehab at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida, finally got her chance to go home Friday. The 8-year-old endangered green sea turtle spent the last six months rehabilitating at The Turtle Hospital after being rescued, wrapped in fishing line and covered in fibropapilloma tumors.

The decision ends a four-year long case remarkable not just in its outcome but that it even made it to trial. Many similar cases against Tesla have been dismissed and, when that didn't happen, settled by the company to avoid the spotlight of a trial.

Perseverance, a lucky sweater, and an uncanny resemblance to one of world's most iconic authors. That was the winning formula that helped a 69-year-old man from Key West, Florida, win the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest title this weekend in the Southernmost City in the U.S.

NYT Travel: Why did Key West, a city of 25,000 at the marshy tip of Florida, attract 4.6 million visitors last year? There are no theme parks, no golf courses, no casinos, and there are better beaches in far more obscure Florida cities. It’s probably the most charming, but unquestionably the least air-conditioned, city in a state where frosty AC is a sacrament.

Jimmy Buffett's widow, Jane Buffett, has asked a Florida judge to remove her late husband's financial adviser, Richard Mozenter, as cotrustee of his $275 million estate.

County commissioners in the Florida Keys agreed to withdraw from the South Florida Regional Climate Compact, as well as eliminate positions tied to emergency management, to cut costs.