Monroe County

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.

The nonprofit Key West Wildlife Center this month began the long-awaited work to revitalize its aviary and clinic building to withstand hurricane damage and provide more space for wildlife patients.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday it will take the unprecedented step of catching and caring for sick sawfish in an effort to prevent ongoing deaths.

The two Republican Florida senators penned a strongly-worded letter to President Biden demanding that he inform Floridians of the White House plans to address the unfolding humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti and prevent what they anticipate to be a “drastic influx of Haitians” to the state.

Community leaders and colleagues on Saturday reflected on a Miami without Miami Herald Editorial Page Editor Nancy Ancrum, who stitched together varying voices in search of our community’s moral center.

In Monroe, the climate threat is already considered so serious that political leaders are now pushing a bold plan built around a typically unpopular option. They want to raise taxes — in this case, sales taxes.

Ehr’s withdrawal from the Senate race short-circuits a potential Democratic primary fight against former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who hopes to unseat U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.

Florida State Rep. James Mooney tells WLRN what he thinks about House Speaker Paul Renner's proposal to consolidate state circuit courts.

Under the new budget, a Monroe County residential property owner will pay a millage rate of 2.7191, or $271.91 per $100,000 of value. That's up from last year.

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.

Waste management is a crisis topic in Miami-Dade these days. Why do Broward and Palm Beach perform better at recycling, and how can the county follow their lead?