Miami-Dade County

The South Florida protesters were part of a nationwide rally of Trump opponents who are countering the president's orchestrated military parade Saturday to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary — and the president's birthday — in Washington, D.C.

During the past two decades of presidential elections, from 2004 to 2024, the nation’s politics has moved along geographic, racial, educational and economic lines in a way that has turned historically Democratic counties to Republican, according to an analysis by NBC News released Sunday.

How the new travel ban rules immediately impact visitors from Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti is unclear. The policy, which officially takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m., does not have an end date.

The Miami-Dade Commission is considering a proposal that would block county officials from releasing public records about suspected undocumented immigrants detained in its jails, leaving family members in the dark about their loved ones, warns the Florida Immigrant Coalition.

The latest voter rolls in the county now show 464,370 registered Republicans, or 34% of voters, 440,790 Democrats, or 32.27%. Independent and third-party voters together number 460,783, or 33.7%. Those numbers come via Michael Pruser, the director of data science with Decision Desk HQ.

The legislation, known as the Take It Down Act, aims to crack down on the sharing of material known as “revenge porn,” requiring that social media companies and online platforms remove such images within two days of being notified of them.

The Goombay Festival is returning to Coconut Grove to celebrate South Florida's deep Bahamian roots and heritage. The festival will feature traditional Bahamian parades, musical performances, and Junkanoos, which are traditional Bahamian parades marked by drumming and elaborate costumes.

Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz confirmed in a press conference on Thursday afternoon that at least three people were injured and taken to a local hospital following a shooting in southwest Miami-Dade.

More than 45 artists and art educators will be honored during the ceremony on Wednesday. Honorees include major philanthropists Jorge M. Pérez and Darlene Pérez from the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), with awards presented by arts luminaries Mireille Chancy Gonzalez and Edouard Duval-Carrié.

The veto by the Democratic mayor comes at a moment when critics of adding fluoride to the water supply have a newly powerful ally: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s health secretary, who this week called for states to ban fluoride in drinking water.

In a statement issued by her office on Tuesday, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she would commit $3 million of funding in the upcoming 2025-2026 budget year for the Eviction Diversion Program and champion "a plan to guarantee it as a permanent program.”

A coalition of more than 40 interfaith congregations in Miami-Dade will meet Monday night to demand city and county elected officials address the dire lack of affordable housing.