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Across Florida, summer heat has generally been extended by about a week and a half to two weeks. This is based on a Climate Central analysis using data from the National Weather Service between 1970 and 2024.

Labubu toys took the internet by storm this summer — now collectors are taking it a step forward by customizing the plush toys with tattoos, piercing and rhinestones. For a Miami artist, it has become quite a side hustle.

A proposal included in the county's $12.9 billion budget would strip the Division of Environmental Resources Management of its permitting authority even as it re-establishes DERM as an independent department.

The Downtown Neighbors Alliance sent a letter to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia asking him to probe the Downtown Development Authority, also known as the DDA.

Melissa White, the executive director of the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, tried to resist the siren call that is pickleball. But when her 12-year-old son, Johnny, and her 12-year-old niece, Tori, begged her, White’s willpower wore down.

At 100 years old, Miami Dade College’s restored Freedom Tower turns exile and arrival into an interactive museum — with more than 350 oral histories, a recreated processing room and galleries organized around freedom, opportunity, home and love.

Officials with the Florida Department of Transportation are hitting the streets of Miami as part of national Rail Safety Week. Alongside City of Miami police officers, FDOT staff handed out rail safety flyers to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians at busy intersections in the Wynwood and Little River neighborhoods.

City officials voted 4-1 at a Palmetto Bay Village council meeting on Monday to censure councilman Steve Cody after controversial social media comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s death. The council is also calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier to investigate the councilman and remove him from the position.

ServiceNow is relocating to West Palm Beach with over $17 million in public funding, creating hundreds of jobs and boosting the local economy by nearly $2 billion. Supported by city leaders and Governor DeSantis, officials say the move reinforces West Palm Beach as a growing tech and finance hub.

A nonprofit started by the Everglades champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas three decades ago to build and run the Biscayne Nature Center in Key Biscayne says it has no plans to leave, after Miami-Dade County park officials ordered it to pack up by November.

It marks the second phase of a crackdown that previously resulted in the conviction of 30 defendants in 2023, according to a statement issued Monday by the U.S. Attorneys Office in South Florida.

With the appointment of an independent inspector general, the City of Miami has an opportunity to move beyond the scandals that have rocked City Hall in recent years.