WLRN News Staff

Days after celebrating its first-ever Hanukkah ceremony, the Miami-Dade County Tax Collector’s Office reported it was targeted by a vandal who destroyed a menorah outside its entrance. A suspect has been arrested and charged.

The 2025 Kwanzaa Community Celebration, titled “Africa Rising: Celebrating Heritage, Building Futures” will be held Saturday, Dec. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Family members said the trauma of the Parkland shooting, which left 17 people dead, including 14 of Donovan Joshua Leigh Metayer's classmates, "lingered long after graduation and profoundly altered the course of his life."

The last known address for Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was about 10 miles north of Miami. The yellow house with a red roof is in a working-class neighborhood that features large houses, mostly with fenced backyards and basements. Some neighbors who talked with The Associated Press on Friday said they had never seen Neves Valente.

Following a historic runoff election earlier this month, Eileen Higgins will be installed as the new Mayor of the City of Miami on Thursday afternoon, her mayoral campaign announced.

Miami-Dade and Broward County public schools, two of the nation’s largest school districts, will be getting $5.2 million in federal funding to support mental health services, U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson announced Saturday.

The exhibition, which opened last month and runs through March, is the culmination of three years of work set primarily in Redland in south Miami-Dade.

The annual event, which began 42 years ago as a parody of the King Orange Bowl Jamboree Parade, has evolved into a beloved local spectacle that embraces the weird and the wonderfully unexpected.

Stories from "History We Call Home: 100 Years of South Florida" are featured in the Dade Heritage Trust's annual Preservation Today publication.

A group of activists in Miami are rallying this Saturday for their 6th annual “Slut Walk Miami” to draw public attention to the upcoming International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

The unique historical landmark is perched on the southern tip of Key Biscayne and its first lighting to guide ships around the Florida Reef, from Key Biscayne to the Florida Keys, happened on December 17, 2025.

Miami now ranks as the sixth-most expensive city in the U.S. for renters. The overall median rent across all property types in the metro area stands at $3,000.