KEY WEST AIRPORT BREAKS RECORD IN DECEMBER
December 2024 was Key West International Airport’s best December on record, with 143,606 passengers using the airport for the month.
2024 was transformative for EYW, with ballooning passenger...
SPCA HITS THE ROAD IN NEW MOBILE CLINIC, THANKS TO FANTASY FEST FUNDS
Remember last year, when the Royal Campaign for King and Queen of Fantasy Fest raised more than $587,000 for the Florida Keys SPCA?
It was the first year...
ROAD ELEVATION PROJECT UNDERWAY ON U.S. 1 IN THE LOWER KEYS
The Florida Department of Transportation is working along U.S. 1 from MM 20.6 to MM 23.1 on Cudjoe Key, from MM 19.4 to MM 19.8 on Upper...
INDICTMENTS & CHARGES GROW IN TRAUMA STAR DRUG THEFT SCANDAL
By Mandy Miles, Jim McCarthy and Alex Rickert
A grand jury has indicted retired county administrator Roman Gastesi, who was slated to return to the top county job...
7 PEOPLE SENT TO HOSPITALS AFTER SHOCKING LOWER KEYS BOAT CRASH
With two children and six adults on board, a large SeaHunter boat smashed into a Lower Keys bridge in the early morning hours of July 8.
The crash...
BOAT CRASH AT LOWER KEYS BRIDGE SENDS 7 TO HOSPITALS, INCLUDING CHILD
Seven people, including one child, were hospitalized early Monday morning after the large center console boat they were aboard crashed into a Lower Keys bridge, Monroe County...
COUNTY PLANS NEW MOORING FIELD OFF STOCK ISLAND
Monroe County is moving ahead with plans to install a new managed mooring field for 40 liveaboard vessels in Boca Chica Basin, just off Maloney Avenue on...
CITY OFFICIALS TO FDOT: LEAVE THE TREES; SKIP THE RAILINGS ON N. ROOSEVELT PROMENADE
“Remove the guardrails and leave the trees.”
Commissioner Billy Wardlow summed up the Key West city commission’s sentiments during the March 14 meeting.
State transportation officials want to install...
FLORIDA KEYS BRACE FOR POTENTIAL MASS MIGRATION FOLLOWING DISARRAY IN HAITI
Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered a wave of state officers and guardsmen to the Florida Keys in preparation for possibly more maritime voyages among migrants from two Caribbean...
TORNADO MOVES ACROSS CUDJOE KEY ON SUNDAY, LEAVING DAMAGED HOMES
A tornado damaged a home on Cudjoe Key on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. CONTRIBUTED