Fort Lauderdale

Florida natives Sierra Grace and David Paulo have seen the landscapes of the places they grew up in change rapidly. Through photos of historical and cultural landmarks shared on Instagram, they work to preserve their community — before gentrification and development take over.

The city is going full steam ahead with a plan that is opposed by Broward County commissioners. But getting any federal grants will be tough without support from the county, which is in charge of the project and prefers a bridge crossing.

The home-grown Our Voices Festival is in its second year and hopes to give out more than a thousand books to local students.

Greg Chavarria has abruptly stepped down as the city undergoes major infrastructure projects such as stormwater upgrades and a new water treatment facility — to the cost of billions of dollars — that will shape Fort Lauderdale for generations.

UPDATE: As the city's mayor paid his condolences to the family of a construction worker killed in the accident, it emerged that a company under investigation was cited with two U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration violations at other job sites last year.

Fort Lauderdale ramps up parking rates and police units. It comes as the city expects an influx of tourists while Miami Beach makes moves to restrict the number of visitors during spring break.

In denying Greg Chavarria a raise, some commissioners took a rare move to voice their dissatisfaction with his performance.

The county spent close to a million dollars to advertise themselves as welcoming and inclusive at the annual parade. Civil rights organization Equality Florida, which had issued an advisory against travel to the state in August, praised the move.

Steve Glassman proposed taking almost $640,000 out of the city's budget for homeless services next year after the city lost a long-running lawsuit over a ban on the feeding of homeless people in public parks.

The city has long backed a tunnel as their preferred solution for a drastic increase in train traffic crossing the river in the coming years, while Broward has favored a bridge. But city commissioners now voted 3 to 2 in favor of a resolution that would accept a bridge.

Broward County is counting on commuter rail — with multiple stops in densely populated areas — to be the centerpiece of new transit improvements over the next decade. There’s just one issue to resolve — how will trains cross New River, which splits the city of Fort Lauderdale.

As the city tries to rapidly make infrastructure improvements six months after April's historic flood, public records reviewed by WLRN detail the frantic recovery operations and where employees felt they could have done better.