If you’ve lived in Florida long enough, you know neon-green iguanas are just part of the scenery — no different from an anti-abortion billboard or an O.J. Simpson sighting. But green iguanas are actually an invasive species. Earlier this month, state wildlife officials made national news after announcing that, yes, it is in fact perfectly legal to kill an iguana for setting foot on your land.
Hollywood residents claim anchored boats on North and South Lakes are becoming eyesores and environmental hazards. They want the lakes designated as recreational areas.
An official from the Army Corps of Engineers confirmed yesterday what people have known for years: the Corps has been dumping toxic water from Lake Okeechobee into local estuaries without warning the populace.
Music by Mary J. Blige and Nas, a full moon kayak tour, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
President Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alex Acosta, used to be Miami’s top federal prosecutor. In his previous role, Acosta gave billionaire pedophile and alleged child rapist Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal so lenient it straight-up violated the law. Thanks to Acosta, Epstein was pretty much allowed to skate by despite the fact he had repeatedly been accused of raping children…
The political price of being a cog in the Trump administration’s immigrant detention and deportation machine is getting steeper. Outrage over the callous treatment of immigrant families in the U.S. has distilled into outrage toward the companies willing to help the federal government carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.
A beer pairing at Barrel of Monks Brewing, music by Hugh Jackman, Train, and the Goo Goo Dolls, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
Miami is utterly sweltering today. Earlier this morning, WeatherUnderground reported that — with humidity taken into account — the temperature felt like 115 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Yet tons of immigrants are stuck in the heat this week at South Florida’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Miramar, where ICE keeps immigrants waiting outdoors in what is essentially a caged pen for hours at a time.
Two Broward deputies have been criminally charged after they were caught on video slamming a high school student to the ground outside Tamarac on April 18, the Broward County State Attorney’s Office announced today.
Not far from the hustle of downtown Fort Lauderdale sits Holiday Park. There are basketball and tennis courts, open play areas, walking trails, playgrounds, and multiple sports fields. The 93-acre refuge, just south of Sunrise Boulevard and east of Federal Highway, is one of the last few spaces of greenery that has…
A contingent of Parkland moms was outside the Arsht Center in Miami Thursday night.
In a post-Parkland world, Florida lawmakers made an extremely logical and not-at-all-crazy move to prevent school shootings by passing a bill allowing teachers to bring guns to school and act as a scholastic militia. Since the passing of this legislation, researchers have some news: This actually won’t help at all.
Music by Rob Thomas and Martina McBride, yoga at LauderAle, and more of the best things to do this week.
A subset of workers at Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — two of the largest economic engines in Miami-Dade and Broward counties — announced this morning that they will go on strike to demand better wages and working conditions at their respective airports.
A study by Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University suggests South Floridians may finally be getting some relief from burdensome housing costs.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the NAACP of Fort Lauderdale demanded prosecutors charget BSO officers who were caught on cellphone video brutally slamming a black J.P. Taravella High School student’s head to the ground back on April 18.
Summer officially began less than a week ago, but temperatures in South Florida are already somewhere between oppressively smothering and absolutely boiling. Yesterday, the high reached 98 degrees, a record for Miami for that date.
The Rockstar Energy Disrupt Festival, West Palm Beach Boat Show, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
A Broward teacher is under fire for making comments on his former student’s Facebook page, where he called pro-abortion women “irresponsible whore[s] with “polluted vagina[s].”
June 26 and 27, a whopping 20 Democratic candidates for president will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts just north of downtown Miami in the first debates of the 2020 election cycle. They will bicker, slam Donald Trump, and almost certainly embarrass themselves by…
Janet Klomburg, a 57-year-old avid Trump supporter from Weston, claimed the Florida Immigrant Coalition’s Lauderhill Mall citizenship clinic was an illegal effort by Democrats to turn the state blue.
Oakland Park’s Beyond Nine Cat Rescue was forced to close with little notice on Sunday, June 16, leaving the rescue organization scrambling to rehome the 50 cats under its care.
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