Florida Keys

The annual two-day lobster mini season is controversial in the Florida Keys — and sometimes dangerous. This year there are some new efforts to make things safer for lobster hunters and the environment.

The images on display at the Key West Art & Historical Society's Custom House Museum show people who worked for the Overseas Railroad as it was nearing completion, and who lived in Key West when the island was South Florida's biggest and most prosperous city.

Monroe County just opened its first new library in decades. And this new library isn't just for a new century — it's for a different world.

Cockfighting has been illegal in Florida since 1986 but it still goes on — the Monroe County sheriff's office just made an arrest on cockfighting charges in the Florida Keys.

The recent spike in maritime migration from Cuba to South Florida shows no sign of slowing. Another group landed in the Florida Keys Monday morning.

The Florida Keys are one of the nation's most vulnerable areas to sea level rise and are facing billions in costs to raise roads and elevate homes. Multiple meetings and workshops the week of June 21 focus on what local residents can expect and how they can adapt.

For more than five years, a disease has been wiping out corals that provide the foundation for Florida's reef tract. Now it's reached the most remote and healthy area of the reef.

As people get ready to head out onto the water in large numbers over the holiday weekend, the state has released its annual report on accidents. The Keys are in the top spot — as they have been for 11 out of the last 14 years.

After Monroe County's hurricane re-entry sticker program was abused during the COVID-19 checkpoint last year, the county came up with a new system — stickers that have bar codes and are color-coded by area.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to help the Keys adapt to climate change would elevate almost 4,700 homes and floodproof more than 1,000 businesses. Total pricetag: $2.8 billion.

One of the last ways to live relatively cheaply in the Florida Keys is on a boat, especially "on the hook," or anchored out but it's not the idyllic easy life that you might imagine.

Boxes containing the eggs of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, water and a little food are being placed in six locations in the Lower and Middle Keys this week. It's the first trial of its kind in the United States.