Key West

The WorldPride 2025 Parade kicks off Saturday in Washington, D.C., with a 1,000-foot Rainbow Flag made from pieces of the Gilbert Baker Foundation’s original 2003 Key West “Sea to Sea” flag.

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.

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.

Key West commissioners postponed renewing a contract with the College of the Florida Keys that linked cruise ships to increased turbidity in the island's shallow port.

Five high school seniors visited Key West from other parts of the country through a program called the American Exchange Project. The goal: send students to politically, socio-economically, and culturally places different from their hometowns.

After a public outcry not to fire Key West City Manager Al Childress, the city commission voted 4-3 Wednesday to terminate Childress’ work contract without cause.

A new 25-year lease will allow longer, wider ships with a deeper drafts at the harbor just inside Florida's reef tract. The deal comes amid growing evidence that sediment churned up by ships damages reefs.

Sundial host, Carlos Frías, spoke with author Carl Hiaasen before a live audience at the Miami Book Fair over the weekend. They talked about his new book, "Wrecker," and growing up in Florida.

Arlo Haskell is an author, historian and the executive director of the Key West Literary Seminar, which is happening from January 11 to the 14.

Key West's Mallory Square, a go-to spot to watch the sunset, is getting a major makeover to include more structures and trees to add shade.

More than 19,000 people have signed a petition to rename it the Jimmy Buffett International Airport. Monroe County's mayor tells WLRN officials are assessing whether it could be possible.

The singer-songwriter, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist song and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, died at age 76.