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The surprise "microburst" weather event— uncommon in the Florida Keys — left significant tree damage in a Plantation Key neighborhood that took several days to clean up. “I lived here all my life and I’ve never seen anything like it," said one resident.
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Candidates running for seats in Districts 1, 2, 3, 5, and 9 took part in web forums held this week by the League of Women Voters of Broward County. You can watch those videos here.
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A rip current is a channel of water pulling you out to sea. The Fort Lauderdale Ocean Rescue says rip currents are one of the greatest dangers for beachgoers and they account for the most beach rescues every year.
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The number of condos for sale across South Florida is rising. Most of them are at least 30 years old and face a New Year's Eve deadline for reforms put in after the Surfside tragedy.
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Photographer Diego Waisman's forthcoming book and photography exhibition — 'For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You' — details the past of South Florida's trailer parks, and paints a bleak picture of their continued presence in the region as investors target land that is ripe for development and force out decades-long residents.
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Mayah Chouloute, who is representing Haiti, explains what motivates her as she pursues Olympic success in Paris in the fastest modality in swimming, the 50-meter freestyle sprint.
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A new complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development claims the city displaced and discriminated against residents of the historically-Black Coconut Grove Village West, using a pattern of zoning that disparately affects communities of color and contributes to the “resegregation” of Miami.
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The Broward County school board was poised to reject Superintendent Howard Hepburn’s recommendation that Jessica Norton be fired as a computer information specialist at Monarch High School, where her daughter played on the varsity team last year. But the board delayed its decision.
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NOAA awarded South Florida scientists up to $16 million to try to breed and replant about 100,000 coral on ailing reefs using survivors of last summer's heat wave. Researchers say climate change is the biggest threat to coral’s survival because it’s simply making water too hot too fast.
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'Our Roof is Blue' tells the story of two young siblings in Puerto Rico during and after a hurricane. The book, based on the story of a kid who lost his voice after Irma and Maria in 2017, has hurricane preparedness tips and climate change information for children. It's been chosen as the Florida Youth Pick for the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
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A Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over Old Tampa Bay, but instead of landing in Tampa, it flew to Fort Lauderdale.
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Nicolás Maduro and his regime have made sure millions of expats can't vote in Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela. The diaspora in South Florida and across the world has responded by quietly organizing to make sure Venezuelans in the country can — and do.
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A Florida man who boasted that he was the “Wolf of Airbnb” has been sentenced to over four years in prison after defrauding New York City landlords and a federal pandemic-relief government program.
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Figuring out what cooling activities the animals enjoy requires a bit of trial and error.