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Monroe county commissioners have approved construction on the first such project in a chronically-flooded neighborhood — Twin Lakes in Key Largo. The $21 million project will include creating a stormwater drainage and collection system and elevating portions of road in the subdivision.
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Usually, the hottest time of the year is the first and second weeks of August but this weekend's temperatures peaked at 112 degrees heat index.
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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is urging voters to see Republican policies like the state’s new six-week abortion ban as undermining the freedom they sought in the United States.
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The housing market in South Florida has become so unaffordable, the state's largest school district is trying something new to retain workers — building workforce apartments on school campuses.
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A group of South Florida artists are raising the alarm after local nonprofit Oolite Arts removed a public artwork over complaints of alleged “hate speech” and “political” content.
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Family and friends have remembered former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham as a politician who usually avoided rancor, enjoyed meeting regular Floridians and always behaved civilly, even behind closed doors.
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Community members in Broward, Duval and Hillsborough counties have spoken out against efforts to close or change programming in schools.
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Although Florida's Amendment 4 doesn’t define "health care provider," legal experts said it would not allow people who aren’t licensed to provide health care to determine whether a patient qualifies for a health risk exception.
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The Hapa Project or Hapa.Me, accompanied by a published book with the same title, interrogates the expression of multiracial Asian identities and confronts the question "Who are you?”
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For Amendment 4 to pass in Florida, at least 60% of voters across the political spectrum must vote yes. Now, supporters are trying to energize the yes votes, while opponents are working to weaken their support.
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The Esserman-Knight judges said WLRN’s reporting on the Guardianship Program of Dade County "brought attention to a neglected legal process, amplifying the voices of vulnerable individuals and making the issue accessible through multimedia platforms.”
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The proposal to restore the Harriet Himmel Theater in CityPlace, in West Palm Beach, calls for wiping out one of the most prominent characteristics of the 1926 church: the entry stairway on the building’s north end.
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At A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, teachers there are expected to be creative, and it works. They’ve created classes that teach medicine, aeronautics and robotics. Art is used to reinforce science lessons, and a teacher plans to add an equine medicine course next fall.
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Florida Power & Light is conducting its annual mock hurricane drills this week to simulate how the utility would respond if a hurricane struck the state and devastated the power grid.