One of the 11 street-art installations in Fort Lauderdale that the state of Florida ordered the city to remove has actually been gone for many months.

Which leads to a pressing question from some local officials: "Who's making these decisions?" Link: trib.al/p8TSjqJ

Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its immunization rate for kindergartners in 2025, despite a recent outbreak of measles in a local elementary school.

The declining rate reflects the heated debate about vaccines raging on social media and among South Florida parents. trib.al/6wdP76A

What rainy season?

This has been one of the driest summers in South Florida in three decades.

Read the story by @bill-kearney.bsky.social (gift link) to find out why: www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/12/2...

Driving in South Florida is stressful. Frequent hair-pulling situations include overly slow drivers, people who don’t signal, and the daily accidents that bring traffic to a standstill. For an upcoming story, send your pet peeves about driving to reporter Lois Solomon at [email protected].

SPECIAL REPORT: A wealthy financial adviser said he loved these women, but attacked four of them — three in a matter of months, records show. His case serves as a particularly stark illustration of what victims endure, both at the hands of serial domestic abusers and in Florida's court system...

UNFORGETTABLE! The Florida Panthers and tens of thousands of their fans gathered on Fort Lauderdale beach for a day unlike any other. More images from the scene at the link in the comments.

SPECIAL REPORT: Absenteeism in Florida school districts skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic and, defying experts’ predictions, it hasn't come back down. Nearly a million Florida students missed more than three weeks of school last year, a staggering number of chronically absent children...

The largest bloom of sargassum seaweed ever recorded in the Atlantic is drifting toward South Florida beaches. It stinks of rotten eggs once it’s washed up and begins decomposing and it can cause respiratory problems. But it also helps support marine life in the ocean.
Link in the first comment.

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Step back in time to the golden era of Spring Break on Fort Lauderdale Beach — when the sun was hot, the surf was cool, and the parties never seemed to end. These vintage photos capture the energy, fashion, and fun of a time when Fort Lauderdale was the Spring Break capital of the world. More...

On this day, and every day, we remember the 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School taken from our community seven years ago.

We continue to post coverage of the issue.

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Hurricanes Milton and Helene devastated parts of Florida.

But there's one impact you may not have heard of, and it's frightening: Flooding may have allowed Burmese pythons — and 55 other invasive species — to spread into areas of Florida they have not been seen in before.

Read on: trib.al/YHhsaOy

Photo trivia! A glorious Fall weekend comes to an end in South Florida. Who can tell us where our photographer, Mike Stocker, took these?

Good morning. Time for your annual deep-fried-turkey-danger warning from your friendly local fire department.

Cool #drone fly-through of the Florida Panthers’ new War Memorial Auditorium in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Read more: www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/11/11/s...