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King tides flooded roads, businesses and the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk across South Florida. Here is how the moon, warm water, onshore winds, porous limestone and a strengthening El Niño can combine to make Florida’s seasonal flooding worse. -
University of MiamiA first of its kind shark and ray mapping effort found the bay, along with waters off the southern Everglades and a tiny South Florida key play an essential part in their survival. “Biscayne Bay is Miami's backyard. But it's still critically important to a lot of different species of shark and ray," a researcher told WLRN.
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A coalition of Miami-Dade's constitutional officers have backed the Amendment 3 tax proposal, which critics say will drain millions of dollars from local government. But at a press conference in Miami on Monday, they said the government must tighten its belt, even while their budgets have consistently increased. -
Miami City Commissioners adopted the city’s record spending plan after last-minute changes shifted millions for festivals, personnel and other expenses. The amendment detailing those changes wasn’t publicly available before the final hearing. -
The election is open only to registered voters in District 4, but the winner will be one of seven commissioners who oversee taxing, spending and development countywide. -
Slinger Francisco, better known as 'The Mighty Sparrow' and the 'Calypso King of the World', passed away Sunday at the age of 91. He made his way to Miami and South Florida many times over the years, entertaining one of the largest Caribbean diasporas in the United States. -
Five years after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, dozens of people arrested in connection with the killing in the troubled Caribbean nation are still awaiting trial in Miami. -
The race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District flared up over the weekend when President Donald Trump reposted on his Truth Social account more than a dozen posts excoriating incumbent Miami Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar. -
On Friday, the non-partisan Cook Political Report, one of the nation's most respected and closely followed election year analysts, moved the Salazar-Rodriguez race from 'Likely Republican" to "Lean Republican." That means the race is considered "competitive." -
The defendant and his co-conspirators ran an alien smuggling organization that charged migrants between $1,500 and $40,000 for transport, occasionally chartering private planes. -
Established in 2015 as a donor-advised fund at The Miami Foundation, the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation's total contributions span arts and culture, education, health and well-being, economic development, and the environment. -
A new law bans cities and counties from funding offices or grants related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Beginning Jan. 1, groups ranging from the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum to the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida won’t be eligible to receive county funds. -
High-speed rail company Brightline has entered into a financial restructuring agreement that would help it reorganize its billions of dollars of debt — while other entities of the company are set to file for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy proceedings will not affect the Miami-to-Orlando high-speed rail operations. -
Six weeks before the general election, Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials on Thursday hailed the indictments of 20 people on voting fraud charges.
