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Crews are working to contain a wildfire in southwest Miami-Dade that has shut down access in and out of the Florida Keys.

On Feb. 6, Wualner Sauceda was deported to his native Honduras. His story first surfaced the very same day he was deported. That Thursday, at a news conference, the Miami-Dade Teachers Union leadership tried to quell fears, assuring the public that Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids had not taken place at schools. At that point, very little ...

A growing number of Floridians are choosing not to vaccinate their children, as parts of the country are currently battling measles outbreaks. At least one measles case has been reported in South Florida.  While most students are vaccinated in Broward and Miami-Dade schools, the number of students with religious exemptions to vaccine requireme...

A woman who survived after she and another woman were struck on a sidewalk following a deadly crash involving a Miami Police officer is speaking out.

Many of the residents who live at the Oasis Living Quarters in Fort Lauderdale are elderly and need extra care, but they say they weren’t given extra time to move out. 

Police are investigating after a body was found floating in a waterway in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. The discovery was made shortly after noon in the 1600 block of W. Broward Boulevard, just east of Interstate 95. Fort Lauderdale Police and Fire Rescue responded and were working to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the person’...

Florida lawmakers Wednesday moved forward with shielding school districts from a 2023 law aimed at later daily start times for high schools.

More than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday, creating a possibility that new information could be revealed about Miami’s possible ties to the event.

The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, is backing off a proposal to terminate an independent theater’s lease and financial support after it screened an Oscar-winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Mayor Steven Meiner introduced a resolution last week describing the film “No Other Land” as antisemitic, but he withdrew ...

A man accused of biting a victim’s ear off during a fight in Fort Myers Beach was arrested, deputies said.

A couple returning from a trip to the Florida Keys barely escaped the large brush fire burning in Southwest Miami-Dade. Kathy and Richard Williams were driving back to Deerfield Beach after a daytrip to Islamorada, but they never imagined they’d be the last car out of U.S. 1. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, fire units and air rescue resp...

An investigation is underway Wednesday after a person was fatally shot in West Little River, deputies said.

A Clay County couple was arrested in Michigan on Tuesday after a woman falsified records to help her fiancée impersonate a nurse, deputies said. Alexiea Irwin and Julien Williams are facing several charges, including 14 counts of practicing medicine without a license. According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, the monthslong investigation...