STATE BILL THREATENS EVENT FUNDING
If a bill circulating in Tallahassee passes in the coming week, then this could be the last year for events such as Key West...
KEY WEST IMMIGRANTS PLAN 2-DAY STRIKE FRIDAY & SATURDAY
In eight months, Key West has lost nearly 500 immigrants to federal authorities. Most of the people who have been removed, detained in a...
KEY WEST BOARD MAKES CASE FOR PAINTED FENCE PICKETS
The city’s historic preservation commission may have made history at its Feb. 24 meeting.
The commission that a decade ago was notorious for telling property...
COAST GUARD CUTTER MOHAWK RETURNS TO KEY WEST FOLLOWING SEA PATROL
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk returned to their home port in Key West on Feb. 14 after a 60-day patrol in the...
FORMER FIREFIGHTER GETS 18-MONTH PRISON SENTENCE
Former Key West firefighter Vincent Vega was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to felony charges of possessing an illegal...
KEY WEST WOMAN GETS 12-YEAR SENTENCE FOR DEADLY CRASH
Judge Mark Wilson sentenced a Key West woman to 12 years in prison after she was convicted of DUI manslaughter, following a fatal crash...
COUNTY TO CAPITOL: LOCAL LEADERS SPOTLIGHT ISLAND NEEDS FACE-TO-FACE IN FLORIDA KEYS DAY
As the rest of Florida battled a brutal cold snap, government leaders and nonprofit reps from the state’s warmest county brought the needs and...
KEY WEST CITY MANAGER GETS RAISE; OFFICIALS REJECT CITY WELCOME SIGNS THAT ‘LOOK LIKE...
Ask for the world; settle for what you can get.
A negotiation tactic as old as commerce itself apparently worked this week for Key West...
JUDGE LETS HAITIANS STAY FOR NOW
Key West’s Haitian community breathed a tentative sigh of relief on Feb. 2, when a federal judge in Washington, D.C. temporarily blocked the Trump...
FIRE DESTROYS A HOUSE, BUT STRENGTHENS A COMMUNITY
A Lower Keys family that lost everything they own in a Jan. 19 fire is now finding something else — the compassion of the...
