Miami-Dade County

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.

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.

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.

While two South Florida cities take part in hearings this week seeking to preserve their rainbow crosswalks, the removal of two art crosswalks in Coral Gables — by the late renowned Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez — happened almost unnoticed. In fact, many residents had been upset by the cost of the installation in the first place.

Ehis Lawrence Akhimie, 41, was a member of a group that sent personalized letters to elderly Americans, falsely claiming they were entitled to a multimillion-dollar inheritance from a deceased family member overseas, according to court documents filed in Miami federal court.

The councilman's social media post calling conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week a “fitting sacrifice,” prompted dozens to demand his resignation, including state attorney general James Uthmeier and Miami-Dade County Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins.