As the government shutdown halts the issuance of new flood insurance plans through the National Flood Insurance Program, Florida officials advise homeowners to turn to private insurance plans.
Coral Gables has embraced climate change, banned plastic bags and vowed to power itself with renewable energy by the end of the century. But when it comes to rooftop solar panels, critics say being green takes a back seat to staying beautiful.
Capt. Jimmy Lewis has tended a school of tarpon near his Bayside slip in downtown Miami for more than a decade, feeding the fish, removing hooks and using them to educate the public. Somebody thought that made them easy prey.
Shuttered since 2014 due to an arsenic contamination, Chapman Field Park in Coral Gables may once again become the site of baseball games come 2020. The county has outlined the first step of a plan to open up part of the park.
Florida Man caused a lot of issues in 2018, but we can’t overlook the critters that made headlines in the Sunshine State this year. Here are the Miami Herald’s best and weirdest Florida animal stories of the year.
Daniel Martinez has been mailing letters to his neighbors asking them to sign a petition after the City of Coral Gables denied his solar panel permits. Martinez says his permit was denied because the city does not like how they look.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had its python removal contractors remove an 18-foot Burmese python from the Everglades Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area.
Miami is the first city to study if “climate gentrification,” redevelopment driven by consumer preferences for higher ground as sea levels rise, is driving residents out of historically black and poor neighborhoods like Little Haiti.
Video from Collier County released by the Florida Department of Transportation shows bears, panthers, bobcats, alligators, and deer using wildlife crossings to safely make it across a Florida road.
The Miami blue butterfly, a fan favorite with its own limited-edition beer, is the focus of renewed efforts to keep it from going extinct with lab bred butterflies being released in the Florida Keys.
Three Ocearch-tagged great white sharks — Katharine, Nova and Jefferson —pinged off Florida’s coast in December, telling researchers the snowbirds have arrived in our waters from Jupiter to the Keys.
Red tide exists many places around the world, not just Florida. Some strategies employed elsewhere may help relieve the algae problem in the Gulf of Mexico.
Miami Beach’s plan to make the city sea-level-rise ready by raising roads has inflamed Lakeview, a tiny, tony neighborhood where residents formed a nonprofit specifically to fight the upcoming project.
South Florida water managers canceled an option to buy 153,000 acres of sugar land on Thursday, a deal worked out when lawmakers negotiated an Everglades reservoir, ending a historic deal first negotiated by former Gov. Charlie Crist.
CBS4 Miami won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award. The South Florida TV station was honored for its documentary, “The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide.” Frontline PBS won Gold Baton.
Governor-elect Ron DeSantis stopped short of demanding resignations from the South Florida Water Management District governing board over a contentious lease deal with sugar farmers, saying instead he plans to wait for a recommendation from his transition team.
Daniel Martinez has been mailing letters to his neighbors asking them to sign a petition after the City of Coral Gables denied his solar panel permits. Martinez says his permit was denied because the city does not like how they look.
