South Florida

The 2020 Super Bowl in Miami Gardens generated about 80,000 pounds of trash. With seven games set to take place at the Hard Rock Stadium in the 2026 FIFA World Cup next month, at a time when Miami-Dade is already dealing with a trash crisis, environmentalists want to try to minimize the impact.

The committee investigating disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein held a field hearing Tuesday in West Palm Beach, where he received the infamous sweetheart deal that allowed him to avoid federal charges.

Moskowitz is pivoting to the newly created 25th district, which stretches along the coast from Delray Beach to Miami Beach. It's an area Trump won in 2024 by about 9 percentage points.

Florida's private passenger train service saw its business grow in 2025, but not fast enough to keep up with its approaching debt requirements. Brightline's annual report shows while ridership and revenues increased, it is burning through cash.

The congresswoman has represented South Florida since 2005, but her district has been carved up by Florida's redistricting efforts.

"Former Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick abused Americans' trust in the most egregious way possible. She manipulated the COVID-19 crisis to funnel over $5 million dollars of FEMA relief funds to her and her family members," said James Percival, DHS General Counsel. "This is outright fraud."

Plans for a 200-acre data center in Okeechobee County, about 60 miles west of West Palm Beach, have been scrapped amid widespread opposition against such projects.

Freddy Antonio Tellez Lopez, who fled his home country, sought asylum in the United States and built a life in Florida, was detained for months by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Broward immigrant detention facility. Here's how he won his freedom.

Democratic congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned before the House could sanction her in an ethics investigation. Members of the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday were set to weigh what punishment to recommend after they found Cherfilus-McCormick committed 25 violations of House rules and ethical standards.

Florida has one of the largest foreign-born populations in the U.S. For some, the fate of citizenship for their new children hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court's decision on President Trump's effort to change more than a century-long practice.

High rip current risk continues through much of the week.

As South Florida school districts predicting dwindling enrollment into next school year, the steady decline in birth rate will contribute to the dramatic year-to-year student loss.