Key Biscayne

A new report questions a fundamental premise of Key Biscayne’s response to climate change, suggesting that a series of limited, localized flooding projects using existing drainage lines may be preferable to the expensive course of action that the island's administration is pursuing.

The celebration at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park will be one steeped both in history and high-tech glitz, and will be a chance to get acquainted with an old friend — actually, the oldest structure in Miami-Dade County.

The unique historical landmark is perched on the southern tip of Key Biscayne and its first lighting to guide ships around the Florida Reef, from Key Biscayne to the Florida Keys, happened on December 17, 2025.

The Key Biscayne Council approved spending $950,000 to move forward with the innovative Shoreline Rickenbacker renovation design this week. Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado said she can deliver the project and was nonplussed when it came to skeptics.

The nonprofit center that Marjory Stoneman Douglas helped found says its located a decades-old document that could boost its case to stay.

Key Biscayners take their Halloween seriously. Like its July 4th Parade, All Hallows’ Eve – and the preceding week, really – is a throwback when kids roamed the streets in drug store costumes going door-to-door for Bits-of-honey and Milk Duds.

In Miami-Dade County, more than 522,890 individuals are set to lose this benefit, with nearly one in every four households affected — twice the national average.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA supporters and allies from SoFlo Animal Rights said they will gather outside the marine park at noon Sunday to serve champagne and mark the closure of what PETA has labeled an "abusement park." The marine theme park first opened in 1955.

One magazine called developer David Martin the “King of Miami.” Now, a deal in front of a bankruptcy judge might grant him another title of nobility: ‘King of the Rickenbacker.” For some Key Biscayne leaders, that’s not necessarily a bad thing — as they reacted mostly positively to news that Martin is planning a takeover of the Miami Seaquarium, the one-time home of the 1960s TV’s “Flipper” and, Lolita, the killer whale.

Melissa White, the executive director of the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, tried to resist the siren call that is pickleball. But when her 12-year-old son, Johnny, and her 12-year-old niece, Tori, begged her, White’s willpower wore down.

A nonprofit started by the Everglades champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas three decades ago to build and run the Biscayne Nature Center in Key Biscayne says it has no plans to leave, after Miami-Dade County park officials ordered it to pack up by November.

A First Amendment expert says the Village violated the state’s open meetings law, a government transparency provision it has violated before, costing taxpayers more than $35,000.