Commissioner Joel Flores told WLRN the $3.3 million contract with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was in response to safety concerns by other commissioners. It comes after recent reports that a commissioner — soon to be county mayor — used deputies as her personal security detail, including for visits to the president’s Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago.

Episode 4 of the WLRN News and Miami Herald podcast 'Killer Train' explores the long history of safety issues on train tracks in South Florida.

Prosecutors accused a South Florida doctor and pharmacists of selling millions of pills illegally for years. WLRN tried to figure out why the state’s pill mill laws did not flag issues sooner.

Brightline trains have killed more than 180 people, an investigation by WLRN and the Miami Herald has found. In the third episode of the Killer Train podcast, hear the stories of three people who lost their lives on the tracks, in the words of the loved ones they left behind.

Sean Duffy, the nation’s top transportation official, committed this week to making the Brightline corridor safer, saying there have been “way too many deaths.” His remarks came the day after the Miami Herald and WLRN published a joint investigation revealing that Brightline trains have killed 182 people since beginning test runs in 2017.

A team of reporters from the Miami Herald and WLRN spent over a year documenting every death involving Brightline trains since the rail line’s launch seven years ago. Drawing on autopsy reports and local law enforcement records, reporters discovered that 182 people — so far — have been killed by the fast-speed train.

An investigation into how a Florida lawmaker paved the way for a controversial school bus camera company to earn millions.

WLRN Exclusive: University professors, custodians, municipal employees and school district administrative employees across the state have lost union representation and the ability to collectively bargain since Florida's Senate Bill 256 went into effect last year. A total of 54 public sector unions have been legally terminated, WLRN found.

In a memo, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava called for new safeguards over the Guardianship Program of Dade County, as well as a review of its staffing and leadership, after an audit report found program employees violated state law.

Miami-Dade's Inspector General found that the Guardianship Program of Dade County — a county-funded nonprofit meant to care for wards deemed “incapacitated” by the courts — had multiple conflicts within its structure relating to property sales. The report comes more than a year after WLRN reported that the agency was repeatedly selling properties to a small network of buyers who would then sell them for big profits.