Palm Beach County

Nearly three years to the day after Floyd’s, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison visited South Florida to talk about his book 'Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence'. He spoke to WLRN about the troubling history of policing in America and ways to implement reforms in the criminal justice system.

West Palm Beach's Office of Sustainability is planting hundreds of trees to address heat levels in historically underserved neighborhoods.

The Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County has issued a Health Alert for the presence of harmful blue-green algal toxins in the Lake Okeechobee.

A TV writer and actor from West Palm Beach has been on the frontlines of a Hollywood writer's strike, fighting for better pay and protections from AI and other issues.

Florida Atlantic University’s race car team is competing in the Formula SAE this week. It's an annual competition where over 100 student teams from across the world design, build and drive formula-style race cars.

The fraudulent diplomas and transcripts qualified those who purchased them to sit for the national nursing board exam. If they passed, they were able to obtain licenses and jobs, prosecutors said.

Search consultants hired by Florida Atlantic University thought they'd have the summer to recruit a pool of promising, qualified candidates to be the school's next leader. Instead, the application window will close on May 16 — just three weeks after it opened.

This week on the South Florida Roundup we held our annual post-legislative session discussion with the editorial page editors of South Florida’s three major newspapers. We examined the immigration crackdown (1:00) and the effects measures like abortion restriction will have in South Florida (19:14), as well as what this all may mean for Gov. Ron DeSantis if he seeks the Republican nomination for President (34:27).

The Palm Beach County community faced the prospect of losing the iconic restaurant, but after a months-long lease negotiation that sparked protests and debates between commissioners and residents, the city commission approved a new lease at a meeting Wednesday evening.

In a case filed by The Palm Beach Post, an appeals court ordered a circuit judge to consider releasing information from grand-jury proceedings about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal said a circuit judge improperly relied on a legal rule to deny the Post’s request to release the information.

In a dispute that has divided the community, the iconic beachfront Palm Beach County restaurant could leave Lake Worth Beach if the city and its owner don't agree on a new lease at a meeting on Wednesday.

In what would be Florida’s fourth execution in less than four months, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for a man convicted of committing two murders in Palm Beach County nearly 40 years ago.