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Highway speeds could increase under a bill that has started moving forward in the state Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate Transportation Committee approved a wide-ranging measure (SB 462), filed by Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-Indian Rocks Beach, that includes boosting the maximum speed on interstates and Florida’s Turnpike from 70 mph to 75 mph. T...

As crews work to tackle the 344 Fire, thousands of people are heading to Homestead this weekend for the NASCAR Cup Series. Windy conditions were a concern as the fire burned tens of thousands of acres in southwest Miami-Dade, but the NASCAR races at the Homestead-Miami Speedway are going on as scheduled. “You look at it, it’s a little c...

Family members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility.

Wualner Sauceda showed off the many letters he received from colleagues and students. “Mr. Sauceda, you were my favorite teacher and still are,” he read out loud from his Honduran home located in a tiny town three hours northeast of the country’s capital Tegucigalpa. Many of the students he left behind used the letters to express how much they......

Police broke up a spring break crowd on Sunny Isles Beach on Friday as things have remained relatively quiet in South Florida for the start of one of the busiest weekends of the season.

Police have arrested a man who they say was one of the masked robbers who held a well-known jeweler and his family at gunpoint at their home in southwest Miami-Dade.

An alleged Tren de Aragua gang member arrested in Florida is the first person to be taken into custody under the Alien Enemies Act, authorities said. Franklin Jose Jimenez-Bracho was arrested Thursday by the Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Law Enforcement along with Homeland Security Investigations and Homeland Security Task Force ...

New surveillance video shows the moment an allegedly drunk driver ran over a couple then fled the scene in Pompano Beach, leaving a woman dead and her husband severely injured.

Three children were among four people hospitalized after a crash on U.S. 1 in southwest Miami-Dade Friday near a large wildfire.

A former Miami-Dade firefighter has been charged with manslaughter after his son died in an unauthorized training exercise in 2024.  

The mother and son who were shot to death by their husband and father who then turned the gun on himself at their Pompano Beach home have been identified.

Orlando Avendaño has lived with Essential Tremor in one of his hands for 30 years, affecting every aspect of his life. But a focused ultrasound treatment on his brain, which lasted just a few hours, has restored the freedom that these tremors had taken from him. Avendaño, 72, said the movement disorder caused his hand to tremble uncontrollably when...

A Florida man arrested for threatening President Donald Trump on social media was found with multiple guns and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said.

A woman’s rights group has launched a new campaign against the Tate brothers in Miami.