South Florida

Right wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro was the favorite in Sunday's Brazilian presidential runoff election — but leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won decisively, stunning South Florida's large and largely "Bolsonarista" Brazilian diaspora.

Two sitting judges lost in the primaries, now voters will fill those and two more seats on Nov. 3.

A Miami Times investigation examines festival spending, local vendor participation and the gap between direct city revenue and broader economic impact.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law July 4, 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over the next decade. One of its changes took effect Oct. 1, ending Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage for many lawfully present immigrants.

U.S. prosecutors allege Pulido and his partner created a network of shell companies to funnel bribes in exchange for state contracts in the South American country.

This South Florida community is typically a refuge for Canadians fleeing cold weather, but trade tensions between the United States and Canada mean fewer are coming.

The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation are partnering for a scholarship program that helps promising young musicians earn their bachelor’s degrees.

A little over a month after earthquakes devastated neighboring Venezuela, western Colombia is now reeling from a powerful quake that struck Monday morning. For South Florida, nonprofits like Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) in Doral are again the focus of relief aid donations.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said Monday it's targeting Florida's 14th Congressional District, which is represented by longtime Democrat U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor in Tampa, and the open 22nd Congressional District seat in South Florida.

In 2024, Venezuelans marshaled online forces to prove their dictatorship had lost — and robbed — a presidential election. In 2026 they're summoning that experience, and those cyber-skills, to respond to an earthquake catastrophe.

Zumper's latest Miami Metro Report shows that Homestead, Weston, and Miramar recorded the largest annual rent price declines in the region last month, each falling more than 7%.

Miami-Dade Democratic state Sen. Shevrin Jones announced Wednesday that after 13 years in the Florida Legislature, he will not run for re-election to the District 34 seat he has held since 2020.