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Key West commissioners on Monday directed their attorney to draft ordinances limiting local cruise ship operations, mirroring city voter-approved measures recently overturned by state lawmakers.
Monroe County Emergency Management officials have activated their Incident Management Team ahead of Tropical Storm Elsa, as the storm could reach the Florida Keys Monday and Tuesday.
After Hurricane Irma and during the height of the pandemic, Monroe County closed the Florida Keys to visitors and set up checkpoints that only allowed residents and business owners to enter.
World Oceans Day is to be celebrated Tuesday, June 8, and in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary a major effort to restore seven prominent coral reefs is well underway just 18 months after officials announced a program dubbed "Mission: Iconic Reefs."
Nearly four years after Hurricane Irma knocked out Fishermen's Community Hospital in Marathon, a new $43.7 million Fishermen's Community Hospital is expected to open June 7.
South Florida may have warm weather and beautiful beaches, but it also has an infamous drug trade which keeps popping up, literally, along the coast of the Florida Keys. That's because packages of cocaine keep washing ashore the Florida Keys.
A portion of a United Arab Emirates grant has been awarded to two Florida Keys-based coral restoration organizations.
Cats really do have nine lives, especially a small kitten found hitching a ride underneath a police car in the Florida Keys.
Card Sound Road is still closed in both directions due to a large brush fire burning in southwest Miami-Dade.
In an effort to combat persistent insect-borne diseases like Dengue fever and Zika, the Florida Keys will release genetically modified mosquitoes.
About 1,000 people representing dozens of U.S. states competed in the 40th annual Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday in the Florida Keys.
Headed to the lower Florida Keys this weekend? Don't go early Saturday. The Seven Mile Bridge Run will be shutdown for the annual bridge run which was cancelled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A major power outage in the lower Florida Keys is being blamed on a sailboat which got stuck in transmission lines on Monday morning, officials said.
Dozens of undersea "egg-splorers" dove a shallow reef off Islamorada in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Thursday, during an underwater egg hunt that serves as a fundraiser to help Keys' children in need throughout the year.
A person snorkeling near Craig Key made an unusual find on Wednesday afternoon.
It has not been easy for Florida Keys charter boat captains to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
A tourist from North Carolina died after being rushed there following a snorkeling incident near the Sand Key Lighthouse in the lower Keys.
A 61-year-old Florida Keys man is facing serious charges after authorities said he tried to kidnap a 19-year-old woman.
A Missouri man is behind bars after authorities said they found him intoxicated on a stolen floating tiki hut in the Florida Keys.
A Miami man was arrested Tuesday night in the Florida Keys after more than two ounces of amphetamines were reportedly found on him during a traffic stop.
A small pod of wild bottlenose dolphins teamed up off the Florida Keys Saturday to employ a unique foraging technique commonly called "mud netting."
Key West Mayor Teri Johnston signed an emergency order Friday that sets an island-wide curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 p.m., running Thursday, Dec. 31, through Sunday, Jan. 3.
Forty critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles arrived in the subtropical Florida Keys Saturday to warm up and receive treatment after suffering "cold stunning" in the waters off Cape Cod, Mass.
Tropical Storm Eta appears to have caused most of its damage in Key Largo after coming ashore around 11 p.m. in Lower Matecumbe Key which is 7 miles south of Islamorada.
An 11-year-old boy is getting well-deserved praise for staying calm, following directions, and assisting rescuers for more than an hour as his grandparents drifted away from their boat during a Florida Keys excursion.
