KEY WEST SENDS COLORFUL MESSAGE TO STATE POLITICIANS
An estimated 200 demonstrators filled Bayview Park and lined the surrounding streets on March 25 to Rally for Our Rights.
The nonprofit Queer Keys organized the rally, where...
IN PICTURES: WOUNDED WARRIORS CYCLE THE FLORIDA KEYS
Forty wounded military vets got on bikes and rode the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West beginning on Jan. 6. The annual Wounded Warrior Project’s...
IN PICTURES: KEY WEST DRIES OUT, DUSTS OFF & CLEANS UP IN THE WAKE...
While Key West remained just out of reach of Hurricane Ian’s Category 4 ferocity, the island city was pummeled Tuesday afternoon and night by tropical storm winds...
IN PICTURES: MARATHON TAKES A HIT, BUT AVOIDS THE WORST OF HURRICANE IAN
Well, it certainly wasn’t nothing. But when all was said and done, the Florida Keys got lucky – relatively speaking – in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
Torrential...
COAST GUARD CUTTER MOHAWK COMES HOME TO KEY WEST, FLORIDA
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mohawk returned on Sept. 12 to its home port of Key West after a 92-day deployment to Africa that started with an...
KEY WEST REELECTS MAYOR TERI JOHNSTON
Key West voters on Aug. 23 reelected Mayor Teri Johnston to her third two-year term. City term limits allow the mayor four terms, for a total of...
KEY WEST BECOMES OFFICIAL COAST GUARD CITY
“This is a big deal.”
That’s what Ron Demes, who coordinated Key West’s recent designation as a Coast Guard City, told city and military officials who helped plan...
IN PICTURES: UNDERSEA MELODIES ABOUND AT 38TH UNDERWATER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Tunes and good times were plentiful beneath the waves at the 38th Annual Underwater Music Festival on July 9. Presented by the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce,...
THE LADY CONCHS ARE OFF TO STATE PLAYOFFS
The Key West Lady Conchs softball team made history Friday night, May 20, by winning the 4A regional championship in convincing fashion over the St. Brendan Sabers...
IN PICTURES: COASTAL CLEANUP NETS 1,550 POUNDS OF DEBRIS IN THE UPPER KEYS
When many people think of the ocean plastic crisis and coastlines covered in plastic and discarded trash they often think of far-off beaches or unnamed communities. When...
