Monroe County

The extensive report — "The State of South Florida Local News: Community Needs & Opportunities" — offers a sweeping analysis of how residents across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties access and evaluate local information. The three counties are home to about 4.7 million people.

The investment in local news is designed to help local media outlets build more sustainable business operations and increase access to critical information for residents across Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in what is the first round of Press Forward South Florida grants.

The construction of the large housing development in south Miami-Dade comes at a time when the county’s shortage of affordable rental homes stands at about 70,000 to 90,000 units.

Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, was released following days of uncertainty after U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested him in Key West, according to a statement posted to Facebook by his family.

Key West immigrant advocates said almost 30 migrants were detained there over the weekend — including the father of a U.S. Navy sailor who's been serving aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Lincoln in support of the Iran war.

More than 1.3 million Floridians voted in person on Tuesday, pushing the primary turnout to just over 25%, according to numbers posted by the Division of Elections. In South Florida, turnout was even lower.

In 1976, a group of elementary school students in Key West left behind pieces of history for their future selves to find. They were tasked with collecting items that represented that moment in time. Fifty years later, the contents of their time capsule have been unearthed.

After the historic 2023 bleaching event, the state paid to increase the lab's coral rescue capacity for when the ocean gets too hot again.

As part of its crackdown on legal and illegal immigration, the Trump administration terminated TPS for about 1 million people from more than a dozen countries, including 350,000 Haitians who have been living and working legally in the U.S. since 2010.

Before the first lobster is ever measured, officials are urging everyone to know the rules...and put safety first.

The Florida Keys just got its second undersea habitat, where researchers can spend days working and living without breaking the water’s surface.

If passed, the state's mosquito control districts that rely on ad valorem taxes could lose a third of their funding, according to the Florida Mosquito Control Association.