After nearly a decade of proposals, protests, and litigation, the plan to build a water park on the parking lots of Zoo Miami is finally dead. A circuit court judge granted Miami-Dade County's motion for summary judgment and rescinded the county's lease with Miami...
Miami-Dade County commissioners are considering legislation that would let the county invest in a broader range of Israeli securities, aligning county policy with rules the state has since relaxed. Under current county policy, Miami-Dade may invest only in bonds...
Miami-Dade County is heading into what could be one of its toughest budget seasons in years, facing a projected deficit in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the difficult choices that come with it. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has scheduled two public...
Brightline, the private railroad that connects Miami to Orlando and has become a fixture of South Florida travel, faces a make or break deadline Wednesday on nearly one billion dollars in bond payments, raising the prospect of bankruptcy for one of the state's most...
Health officials are urging South Florida residents to take extra care with fresh produce as an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by a microscopic parasite, spreads across more than thirty states, including Florida. The Florida Department of...
A fire that began beneath the pavement erupted into flames along one of Miami Beach's busiest commercial corridors Sunday evening, injuring three people and forcing the evacuation of a building at the corner of Collins Avenue and Lincoln Road. According to Miami Beach...
The escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf is beginning to register far from the Strait of Hormuz, including at gas stations and in household budgets across South Florida, as oil prices climb amid renewed fighting between the United States and Iran. Global oil prices...
South Florida remains locked in a stretch of oppressive summer heat, with high temperatures and thick humidity combining to push feels like readings well into the triple digits across Miami-Dade and Broward. Forecasters point to a familiar summer culprit: a plume of...
Local governments across Miami-Dade are opening their budget deliberations with a familiar tailwind: a countywide taxable property value increase of 5.4 percent, a rise that will translate into a significant boost in operating revenue under existing tax rates. The...
Miami-Dade's newest transit line is finding its audience even as the county's older systems shed passengers. The 368 million dollar South Dade Bus Rapid Transit service has posted month over month ridership gains through most of its first six months, at a moment when...
The City of Miami is considering a change to its charter that could reshape how the city handles sudden vacancies in its highest offices. Under the proposal, future vacancies in the offices of mayor and city commissioner would have to be filled through elections,...
South Florida is baking under a punishing stretch of summer heat, with a heat advisory in effect for Miami-Dade and Broward counties on Thursday from late morning through the early evening. Forecasters warned that feels like temperatures could climb as high as 110...
