Lower Keys News

What happens to a tourist town when local workers can’t afford to live there?

Housing is the largest single challenge facing Florida Keys residents and has been for decades. With scarce buildable land, strict height restrictions, sky-high property values, second homes that sit empty most of the year and a proliferation of vacation rentals, many full-time workers no longer can afford to live or rent in the island chain, much less buy a home.

Over the next three weeks, Keys Weekly tackles the housing crisis by identifying the problem, examining its causes and seeking solutions.

Colonel Abraham (Abe) Conn joins the Florida Keys Weekly Podcast to discuss his perspective on the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. To name just...

Here in the Florida Keys, there are many badasses, and we’ve had the privilege at Keys Weekly to write about many of them. But...

The College of the Florida Keys recognized high-achieving students who made the President’s List at events at the Key West campus and Upper Keys...

Two items on the Feb. 8 Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority board meeting agenda raised eyebrows and drew harsh criticism from nearly anyone who pays...

An outlaw motorcycle gang in the Keys? Really?  Yes, sheriff’s deputies have arrested three members of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club in the Lower Keys in...

Conch Baseball is “safe at home.” Officials made the call on Tuesday to save the 2023 baseball season by postponing construction of Key West High...

The word “midterm” gets tossed around with increasing frequency this time of year as political candidates — incumbents already in office and hopefuls looking...

A caravan of nearly 40 cyclists made their way down sections of the Overseas Highway and across the Seven Mile Bridge for Wounded Warrior...

Heath, last seen on Nov. 22, was wearing a navy blue short sleeve shirt, gray shorts, prescription sunglasses and Keen sandals. He is 5-foot-seven-inches...