South Florida Local News

U.S. public health agencies have sent a letter to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warning that his fueling of vaccine hesitancy is harming the public, particularly Florida seniors.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ book tour took him Friday to Iowa, the first GOP caucus state in the 2024 primaries, while his would-be presidential campaign heated up with new ads both for and against him.

Analiz Osceola, the Hollywood mother accused of lying to cops about her missing 3-year-old stepson eight years ago and failing to seek medical attention as he lay dying, was found guilty Friday of aggravated manslaughter.

Ten migrants came ashore about 3 a.m. Friday at Ocean Inlet Park in Boynton Beach.

Republican bills aimed at preventing transgender children from transitioning have led to a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and the LQBTQ community.

Floridians who are raped would need to show evidence if they want an exception under the proposed six-week abortion ban.

The next stop for permitless carry will be the full Senate, and the House version is lined up for chamber debate as well.

The dyeing process starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 11, and stretches from Orleans Street almost three quarters of a mile east to Columbus Drive.

Get ready to "fall back" with this explanation on the change in standard time in the United States.

Elected leaders in Boca Raton are asking for more time, while those in Delray Beach want more money during Tuesday’s elections. But it’s not clear whether voters will go for either of them.

A member of the Florida National Guard is fighting for his life after a car hit him and drove off in Miramar early Sunday morning, the second hit-and-run crash on the same stretch of road in the past three months.

La Niña, the climate pattern that helped fuel the extremely active hurricane seasons and drought in the southwest over the past 2 1/2 years, has ended, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

Citing gun restrictions dating to the Reconstruction era, a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Florida law quickly enacted after the Parkland mass shooting that prevents sales of rifles and other long guns to people under age 21.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony vowed to crack down on the increasing number of "street takeovers" and drag-racing events across South Florida and announced the arrests of three stunt drivers and eight spectators at a takeover in Fort Lauderdale last week.

After letting Relativity Space have the Space Coast launch spotlight for a day, SpaceX was back to business with its final mission to help send up a competitor’s satellites after they lost their orbital rides in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A Broward County woman who used nearly $50,000 of her dead father’s Social Security benefits for tickets to the Miami Heat, shopping trips to Costco and concerts has been sentenced to five months in prison, the Department of Justice said.

The dealer who sold fentanyl-laced cocaine to a group of partying Spring Breakers last year in Wilton Manors was sentenced Thursday to nine years in a federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.

A Florida House panel Thursday backed a proposal that would set later start times for high schools and middle schools.

Vice President Kamala Harris and singer Gloria Estefan took the stage at Miami Beach’s New World Center to discuss potential climate solutions and what it will take for a clean energy economy to emerge from the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act.

Broward School Board member Torey Alston, a DeSantis appointee, was a featured speaker at an event called “Exposing the Book Ban Hoax.”