The latest breaking news, stories and features from West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach and the rest of Palm Beach County from the award-winning team at South Florida's NPR member station.
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A new documentary to premiere this month at the Miami Jewish Film Festival is shining a light on a forgotten legal battle that forced one of the world’s most powerful men to answer for his prejudice.
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Palm Beach County announced that the county purchased an additional $350 million in Israel Bonds, pushing its total investment to exactly $1 billion — the most of any single investor in the world.
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The soprano is taking her talent to the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, singing in four languages and across diverse styles, including African-American spirituals inspired by her parents. She’ll be joined by renowned pianist Bryan Wagorn.
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The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach is ringing in the new year with a two-day celebration honoring Japanese New Year customs through music, food, and ancient martial arts.
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Residents still living in cottage-style apartments as 1940s-era federal housing project in West Palm Beach transitions to modern, four-story buildings.
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Delray Beach commissioners unanimously greenlit a $275,000 grant to offset the state’s cuts to arts funding that left the venue reeling.
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A new Dominican-American exhibition in West Palm Beach asks viewers to dig beyond surface level interaction with people from marginalized communities.
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In Florida’s family courts, parents who exhibit red flags of future violent behavior towards their spouses or children are routinely given access to those individuals - with vulnerable women often at a disadvantage. WLRN looks at the flaws in the system through three South Florida cases where these warning signs were ignored, with tragic results.
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In an Instagram post, Singer, a business attorney who has led Boca Raton since 2018, said he wants to bring "America First" conservative principles to Washington. He said flipping the 23rd district — which includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties— is key to keeping Republicans in command of the U.S. House.
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The Palm Beach County commission is doubling down in its efforts to preserve and celebrate African American history through a new Black museum in West Palm Beach.
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Officials from four powerful Palm Beach County organizations financed by taxpayers met last week to talk about the health and welfare of the county’s children. They expressed concern about whether their legislative priorities, such as full-day prekindergarten, were realistic, given scrutiny by Florida DOGE and a push to eliminate some property taxes.
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Health care advocates and progressive groups across Florida said the U.S. Senate’s failure to extend premium subsidies for the Affordable Care Act was a “disheartening setback” that will significantly raise the cost of health insurance for nearly 5 million Floridians, including hundreds of thousands of people in South Florida.