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Demand was high as a new COVID-19 testing site opened in Broward County Thursday in response to the surge of new cases in South Florida.

Team coverage with NBC 6’s Julia and Marissa Bagg as new sties open to beat the long lines and new strategies to get younger people vaccinated.

One day after the forecast for the 2021 hurricane season was modified for the possibility of more activity, two possible named systems in the Atlantic could form within the next week. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the first tropical wave, located in the central Atlantic Ocean, continues to produce a broad area of showers and storms as it…

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken heat for barring face masks in schools and fighting cruise ship companies that wanted to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for passengers. “The governor decided some time ago that this was more of a political opportunity than a health care challenge,” Democratic Miami Beach mayor Dan Gelber said.

NBC 6’s Adam Berg has the latest on what could be the next two named systems in the 2021 hurricane season.

Detectives posed as juveniles on social media, apps and online dating sites as part of “Operation Child Protector.”

One of South Florida’s biggest hospital systems is planning on suspending elective medical procedures amid the state’s recent COVID-19 spike. In a statement Wednesday, Memorial Healthcare System in Broward County said they will be suspending elective procedures on August 9 “in an effort to conserve critical resources for the care of COVID-19 patients, to provide safe healthcare, and to...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has strong words for President Joe Biden, after Biden told him to “get out of the way” when it came to COVID-19.

Having just had her flight canceled, a Missouri woman’s luck quickly changed when she won $1 million from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket

A day after Joe Biden told him to “get out of the way” when it came to resisting COVID-19 rules, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at the president, vowing to fight any federal mandates on vaccinations or masks in schools and accusing the administration of letting the virus spread by allowing migrants into the country at the southern border.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to President Joe Biden during a speech in Panama City, Fla., on Wednesday.

Already in the 2021 season, five named systems have formed with Hurricane Elsa being the earliest fifth named storm on record.

Laid-off workers didn’t have to look for work to collect unemployment benefits early in the Covid pandemic. Most states have re-imposed the requirement.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a roundtable discussion with some of the state’s hospital’s CEOs Wednesday amid record COVID-19 hospitalizations. Among the CEOs participating in the Zoom roundtable with DeSantis were Carlos Migoya, with Jackson Health System in Miami, and Shane Strum, with North Broward Hospital District. With the much more contagious delta variant now spreading exponentially, Florida hit...

NBC 6 Team Coverage with Julia and Marissa Bagg as hospitalizations rise and new testing sites open to make it more accessible as cases hit record numbers.

The fight over requiring masks in Broward County Public Schools continued Wednesday, with the district insisting that their facial covering policy remains in place for the time being. In a statement, the district said masks are still required in schools and facilities, but said they’re still awaiting further guidance before making a decision on requiring masks for the upcoming...

President Joe Biden is calling on resistant Republican governors to “get out of the way” of rules to contain the more transmissible and dangerous COVID-19 variant

The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida rose to an all-time high of 11,515 patients in one day, according to data the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released Tuesday.

Doctors in South Florida are sounding the alarm on the number of COVID patients going into hospitals. NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi reports.