KEY WEST FIREFIGHTERS TRAIN FOR SCARY SCENARIOS
Members of the Key West Fire Department recently took part in specialized training known as Man vs. Machine.
The program introduces firefighters to unusual incidents...
KEY LARGO MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO SET LOCAL RESTAURANT ABLAZE SENTENCED TO PRISON
Terry Wayne Moore Jr. has been sentenced for setting multiple fires at the Pilot House restaurant in Key Largo, according to State Attorney Dennis...
PRESTON BREWER MURDER TRIAL SET FOR OCT. 6; JUDGE TO RULE ON USE OF...
Despite a judge granting him a $3 million bond, accused murderer Preston Brewer has remained in jail since the February 2023 shooting death of...
CORAL SHORES HIGH SCHOOL AND FIRST RESPONDERS COMMEMORATE 9/11
While the courtyard at Coral Shores High School was surrounded by 2,977 small American flags, the students and staff stood silently in honor of...
NEW HOSPITAL IN ISLAMORADA COMES TO THE AID OF INJURED DOLPHINS, WHALES
Florida Keys community members came together on Sept. 1 for the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of the region’s only whale and dolphin rehabilitation facility,...
STATE ERASES KEY WEST’S RAINBOWS: WHAT WILL REPLACE THE COLORFUL CROSSWALKS?
They’re gone.
After months of Key West residents’ protests against state overreach and impassioned pleas for protection of the city’s rainbow crosswalks, state transportation workers...
TIME’S UP FOR TRANSIENT RENTALS IN TRUMAN ANNEX; 20-YEAR AGREEMENT ENDS DEC. 22
Twenty years felt like some far-off date in the future back in 2005. It was the year of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and...
AND THE POINT IS? SUBSTITUTE SOUTHERNMOST BUOY SHIFTS TO NEW SPOT, TEMPORARILY
Key West’s most photographed landmark is boarded up behind construction fencing, but a substitute Southernmost Point buoy has been erected at a temporary new...
SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN COMPLETES 10-WEEK FBI NATIONAL ACADEMY AT QUANTICO
It’s an honor, a privilege and a rigorous challenge only offered to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office once every seven or so years. And...
WELCOME TO…THE GUNSHINE STATE?
By Mandy Miles, Alex Rickert & Jim McCarthy
Editors’ note: Legal interpretations and implications of the Sept. 10 court ruling are changing hourly. The Keys...
