The greening of Guantanamo

Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team o...

Florida Bay

After a down year, spoonbill return

An Audubon scientist sees a flash of pink hope in the return of roseate spoonbill to nests on the mangroves...

Planting a garden? What's your rush?

"Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons" By Felder Rushing (Chelsea Green)

Cruise ships banned from releasing sewage along Calif. coast

Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be barred from releasing sewage within three miles of the Ca...

Try houseplants as gifts for Valentine's Day and beyond

Why give fresh flowers for Valentine's Day, only to know they will soon die. Instead, give an easy-care hou...

Edible landscaping takes food plants beyond bounds of vegetable patch

Food plants have jumped the fence from the kitchen garden.

Environment

Guantánamo -- the place with the prison camps -- is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo ...

Schools sniffing around for new tax revenue

Money for buildings is a major issue for South Florida’s public school districts. In Miami-Dade, the...

Education

How one charter school bucks trend, serves the disabled

An Orlando campus is proving that charter schools can serve students with disabilities.

Public education

South Florida’s crumbling schools and how they got that way

When basketball coach Cleve Roberts took a Miami Norland team to play at Miami Jackson Senior High a few ye...

Why school buildings don’t last here

Ever wonder why the little old schoolhouse in Florida doesn’t last as long as buildings in other par...

Miami-Dade Schools

More Miami-Dade high school students jump into college classes

Florida offers look at problems with education law

Florida, home to several of the nation's largest school districts, offers a look into what went wrong with...

Pinecrest

Pinecrest Gardens Youth Arts Festival seeks students

Pinecrest Gardens’ second annual Big Gig is accepting applications from children who are interested ...

Education

How one charter school bucks trend, serves the disabled

An Orlando campus is proving that charter schools can serve students with disabilities.

THE ECONOMY

Poverty, Homelessness Rising Sharply Among Florida Students

An analysis of data on child poverty and subsidized lunches shows how much poorer Florida has become since ...

Henry Flagler, his town, and the fire

Did Henry Flagler have an explosive secret? Some in Palm Beach County say yes.

Haiti, through a photographer’s lens

A flicker of light in Haiti

Two years after an unprecedented and unimaginable natural disaster, Haiti still mourns its dead, struggles ...

Republican primary

Where the GOP hopefuls stand on the issues

A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of key issues in Florida a...

CUBA

How church, Castros learned to coexist

Enrique López Oliva remembers the days when Cuban Catholics hung their religious icons in their grand...

HELPING HONDURAS

The risks and rewards of helping Honduras

Pink. Yellow. Green. Blue.

NYC sewage plant to offer Valentine's Day tours

It may not smell like a rose but a New York City sewage plant is offering tours for lovers on Valentine's Day.

Pakistani man fights police over 40-foot shark

Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hu...

Necklace flushed down toilet returned months later

A California woman has her gold necklace back months after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.

Car theft suspect held after LA roof standoff

A suspect in an auto theft was arrested Thursday after a bizarre five-hour standoff on the rooftops of a We...

Hundreds ask Vt. to keep prank pig on police decal

Trooper: Irate driver hit man with sledge hammer

The Washington State Patrol says an irate driver apparently whacked a man in the shoulder with a small sled...

Judge: Buy wife flowers, then take her to dinner

A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic vio...