Miami Beach

Miami Beach is tired of a community of live-aboard boaters anchored just offshore. It's adopted policies limiting their access, including making it illegal to tie up dinghies at a city boat launch.

The country’s largest festival showcasing films by Black storytellers returns to Miami Beach for its 28th year. The ABFF features independent works from some of the hottest talents from Denzel Washington to actress and writer Issa Rae.

A group of environmentalists and divers hope to have the reef line just off Miami Beach eventually declared a marine park where fishing in some areas could be off-limits.

After three consecutive years of spring break violence, Miami Beach officials are implementing monthlong security measures aimed at curbing the chaos, including parking restrictions for non-residents and closing sidewalk cafes on busy weekends.

In the latest effort by Miami Beach to curb rowdy spring break crowds, the city is implementing some of its strictest measures in recent memory — parking garage closures, DUI check points, license plate readers that's compared to other spring break hubs like Fort Lauderdale.

Plans are underway for the iconic Miami Beach hotel and bar to be replaced with a high-end restaurant and affordable housing units.

13 million tons of seaweed are bobbing off the coast as this year’s Great Atlantic Sargassum Bloom sets new records.

Miami Beach elected officials have voted to direct city staff to propose restrictions like a limited curfew for spring break 2024 that they'll vote on in April.

Miriam Bettant runs a French bakery with her husband in South Beach. Though the space faces upheaval, she’s determined to remain in an area she loves.

A large, slow-moving Category 4 storm like Hurricane Ian would push a catastrophic surge across much of coastal Miami-Dade many times worse — and extending much farther inland — than Irma did in 2017.

Two shootings wounded five people in the city this past weekend. A curfew will go into effect late this week requiring that people be off the streets between midnight and 6 a.m.

The constant complaints that Miami Beach’s plans to raise roads in the face of sea rise would flood nearby homes has finally resulted in lawsuits.