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The city of Miami breezed through the first hearing on its $3.6 billion budget, but residents and city leaders aren't without concern.

Residents and tree advocates say the city is increasingly invoking traffic-safety rules to scrutinize long-time hedges and mature trees, raising questions about what the enforcement could mean for Coconut Grove’s lush character.

Much of the hijackers’ lives in South Florida was revealed shortly after the terror attacks. As years went on, journalist Dan Christensen stayed on the case, unearthing evidence and leads that had been left out of the official 9/11 Commission Report. He tells WLRN there is still much to learn.

The project addresses an urgent crisis: historic Black spaces are vanishing far faster than public institutions recognize them.

Florida's Surgeon General has called to end all vaccine mandates. Parents are confused, vaccine hesitancy is growing — and pediatricians say they are feeling the strain of tackling the mistrust. "When something as proven safe and effective and important as vaccines takes a disproportionate amount of our time and energy... it can be exhausting,” said one.

Scientists say that August was the hottest month ever recorded globally. In the U.S., summer temperatures also shattered heat records.

With a new city government building under construction, Miami commissioners want to preserve the historic property on Dinner Key.

For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast, according to flight information.

Delray Beach is spending $59 million to renovate Pompey Park in the historic "The Set" neighborhood. During segregation, Black residents fought to create this park because they were banned from city beaches and pools.

They also announced a billboard campaign — one on I-95 in Miami and the other on the Selmon Connector in Tampa — to publicly call on Moody and fellow Republican Sen. Rick Scott to protect Haitian immigrants who recently lost Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

In late August and early September, the largest collection of Florida's most endangered coral spawned in a Key Largo nursery. Thousands of babies are now being raised in labs around the state, which scientists hope could help revive elkhorn coral on North America's only barrier reef.

Miami's first budget hearing kicks off with Amendment 3 tax changes and a possible $400 million bond looming on the horizon.