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Joey Flechas/Miami HeraldWith salaries and benefits consuming 77% of Miami’s budget, payroll systems track every dollar paid — including overtime and bonuses — but city officials declined to provide a full accounting of what employees actually earn. -
Alec Jerome KreisbergThe movie by local filmmaker Aaron Glickman screens this week at the Miami Film Festival. It invites the viewer to look beyond Miami's reputation as a capital of glitz, glamour, sand and surf — and delve straight into the city's literary soul.
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The House has passed legislation that would extend temporary protections for Haitian immigrants living in the United States. The long-shot effort against President Donald Trump's attempts to end that status would allow hundreds of thousands of qualifying immigrants to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation. -
Love, loss and borders collide in Melodrama — the Dominican and Haitian drama-romance making its U.S. premiere at the 43rd Miami Film Festival. -
For Coconut Grove-based playwright and producer William Hector, a theater festival in the neighborhood was no coincidence. A love for the arts and community, bred in the Grove, set him off on a lifelong path in theater. -
Miami leaders pledge to faith leaders more funding for mental health, boosting housing affordabilityAn interfaith coalition called Miami PACT pushed leaders from Miami-Dade County to pledge specific actions to tackle the needs of Miami's low-income residents. -
As part of a working visit to the United States, the King and Queen of the Netherlands ended their first day in Miami at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science to learn about climate-resilient infrastructure and environmental rehabilitation. -
In a letter last month, Army Corps officials withdrew a request for a state permit for the port's massive channel widening project. -
Loxahatchee Groves, located in the western part of Palm Beach County, is facing a shakeup after its Town Council voted to oust its town manager -
Nathalie Saladrigas didn't think her 'silly' poem about roaches and salsa music was anything special, but the five-line ZipOde strikes at a familiar and relatable experience. -
A contingent of nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress filed a "friend of the court" brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, mounting a major legal challenge against the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. -
More than two-thirds of U.S. Latino voters disapprove of President Trump in a national survey by FIU's Latino Public Opinion Forum — portending the swing bloc's significant return to the Democrats after pivoting to the GOP in 2024. Florida, though, was the poll's outlier. -
The drumbeat to boot U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress is growing louder in Washington. -
“What we are seeing points to blatant violations and intentional efforts to circumvent the commitments and ethical processes that FIFA promised to South Florida taxpayers,” said South Florida AFL-CIO President Jeffrey Mitchell in a statement.
