Miami

The pair of burrowing owls stowed away on a Norwegian cruise ship at PortMiami last year and sailed to Spain. Planning their return took coordinating a dizzying list of international trade authorities, wildlife permitting and quarantine rules.

Regional tourism was softening as 2025 came to and end. The new year appears to have started off with renewed interest by visitors to come to South Florida. And they're paying up to stay overnight, especially in Miami-Dade County.

The city of Miami Beach is still emphasizing "law and order" during the once-chaotic spring break season, but some of the harsher regulations from last year have been toned down.

Palantir Technologies has been a Wall St. darling as it's grown substantially thanks to its data analytics software used by corporate America and the U.S. government, including ICE. The work has also attracted protests.

Behind Heisman Trophy-winner Fernando Mendoza, the Hoosiers put the finishing touch on a rags-to-riches story, winning the College Football Playoff in the Hurricanes' home stadium.

Venezuelans interviewed in Weston and Doral — cities with the largest concentration of Venezuelan-Americans in the nation — said they are ecstatic over Maduro's ouster from their beloved homeland, and are hopeful of a promising future for their homeland.

The Saturday celebrations in Doral and across Venezuela's vast global diaspora belie the reality that despite dictator Nicolás Maduro's capture by U.S. forces, his dictatorial socialist regime remains intact — and could be for quite a while.

"The elimination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans earlier this year was reckless, dangerous, and wrong," Miami Mayor Elaine Higgins said Saturday in a statement. "The instability unfolding in Venezuela today makes it even clearer that the country remains unsafe for people to return. No one should be forced back into chaos and uncertainty."

The NHL has hosted 43 outdoor games, but none have been as ambitious as Friday's matchup at loanDepot Park and again on Feb. 1 at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.

Every weekday, Billy Botsch takes an hourlong trip on two trains to Miami immigration court. He isn't a lawyer. He doesn't have a family member due to appear. He watches and takes notes from hundreds of hearings. WLRN asked him to keep a diary for a day.

Miami's iconic Spanish-language radio station WAQI — Radio Mambí — will take its news and talk programming off the air, in a further sign that an effort to create more moderate Latino broadcasting in South Florida hasn't panned out.

Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak.