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PBC Youth Services 2024 Annual ReportA Palm Beach County agency that provides grants to nonprofits to help struggling teens and their families is in the crosshairs of the state’s DOGE team and county commissioners. At a meeting Aug. 26, leaders of the county’s Youth Services Department will be asked to justify why they want to give tax money to 33 agencies. It marks the commission’s first critical inquiry into spending since it created the department 10 years ago. -
Don Finefrock/The SpotlightA man was killed after a collision with a 14-year-old riding an e-bike on Rickenbacker Causeway, one of Miami’s heaviest — and most dangerous — cycling routes.
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Florida Senate Minority Leader Lori Berman is demanding Florida Attorney James Uthmeier respond to a range of questions she raises about the state’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Everglades. -
A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center. -
Union officials, in a statement released Friday night, said negotiations with Encompass have failed to reach an agreement. They said the union offered a 50 cent per hour raise. The current contract expires Monday. -
The decision is based on the improved environmental situation in Haiti, which DHS say is deemed safe for return. TPS allows people in the US to live and work legally if their native countries are deemed unsafe due to natural disaster or civil strife. -
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration has said that in the next few days it will stop providing data from satellites that have been helping hurricane forecasters do their jobs for decades, citing “recent service changes” as the cause. -
Acclaimed R&B singer-songwriter Tiffany Evans is making a major return to the music scene with her comeback tour in West Palm Beach. She is urging people to unplug from their screens and AI to reconnect with the emotional magic of live music. -
Fearing for the safety of animals and finding the former Dolphin Company CEO, Eduardo Albor is defying her orders, a U.S. bankruptcy judge imposed sanctions of $10,000 a day on him. -
Immigrant rights advocates and community organizers are expected to rally Friday outside the Miami-Dade Government Center — speaking out against what they're calling violence and deception at county commission meetings. -
Authorities are investigating the death of Johnny Noviello, 49, who died Monday in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in Miami. -
The lychee has a notoriously short season, so South Florida growers always see a rush on the exotic treat. But, in large part because increasing temperatures driven by climate change, it's going to be even shorter. -
Commissioners went against the Florida Attorney General and passed a much-debated item to move this year's election to 2026, effectively giving commissioners and the mayor an extra year in office. -
Fiorella Occhionero’s concerns about screen time and childhood development led to the creation of Focus Safe, a startup based in Boca Raton that offers software to help schools manage student-owned devices during class time.
