STORM CHASING: HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT VISITS MARATHON ON NOAA HURRICANE AWARENESS TOUR

For the first time in more than a decade, the Marathon Airport played host to the massive engines and wingspan of a C-130J Hurricane...

NEW BAGGAGE CLAIM AREA OPENS AT KEY WEST AIRPORT

If you’re checking bags for a flight into Key West International Airport, expect a less frustrating experience retrieving them. One of two new baggage carousels...

FOUNDERS FIELD UPGRADES IN DOUBT; KEY WESTS’S REX WEECH ATHLETIC FACILITY PROGRESSES

Continued disagreement over a baseball field improvement project by the school district at Islamorada's Founders Park highlighted the April 7 school board meeting in...

CHIEF RESPONDS TO CITY COMMISSIONER’S TRAFFIC STOP

Only in Key West, and more specifically, only in Key West during an election, does a routine traffic stop become a social media spectacle.  So...

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY HELPS IDENTIFY HUMAN REMAINS IN DECADES-OLD KEY LARGO CASE

A man found dead in the northern part of Key Largo nearly four decades ago was recently identified with the help of advanced genetic...

LEGISLATORS SET FOR SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING SESSION WITH STILL NO BUDGET PASSED

As talks over a budget agreement loom over the state capital, legislators in the Florida House and Senate will return to Tallahassee to discuss...

IN PICTURES: RACERS BATTLE BRUTAL BREEZES FOR THIRD YEAR IN 7 MILE BRIDGE RUN

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: It got a little windy out there. For the third time in as many years, racers in the...

REPEAT NARCOTICS SALES NEAR SCHOOL RESULT IN PRISON SENTENCE FOR KEY WEST MAN

In a recent case, the Monroe County State Attorney’s Office announced that 66-year-old Bobby Allen, 65 was adjudicated guilty and sentenced following multiple controlled...

SHERIFF’S OFFICE, COUNTY LAUNCH STOCK ISLAND DERELICT VEHICLE AND TRAILER CLEANUP EFFORT

Monroe County is partnering with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office to address derelict and abandoned vehicles and trailers on Stock Island, with a coordinated...

PILOT UNINJURED IN SEAPLANE CRASH OFF DRY TORTUGAS

The pilot of a seaplane that crashed off Dry Tortugas National Park the morning of April 11 was not injured in the incident, and...