1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (612+ words) Amid mounting reports of worsening conditions within downtown Miami’s Federal Detention Center, a Bureau of Prisons facility being used to house some immigration detainees, Florida advocacy groups are building a case for federal intervention by collecting firsthand accounts from detainees....

8+ hour, 35+ min ago  (442+ words) Former Haitian president Michel Martelly has returned home. Martelly, who lives in Miami, arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday after traveling from the northern city of Cap-Haïtien aboard a Sunrise Airways flight. His rare visit comes as an investigative judge continues…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (551+ words) Building a new garbage incinerator plant now would cost Miami-Dade County $3 billion under a private development deal that’s facing criticism by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, according to a recent memo. That’s $1 billion more than the last time the county presented…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (985+ words) On Friday, the day work permits for Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries of seven countries were due to expire, the Trump administration extended them for two weeks. The news is a welcome relief to those affected, but still leaves businesses, workers,…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1085+ words) Cubans who self-describe as revolutionaries have been turning to social media to question the rapid ascent of Raúl Castro’s grandson and his role in negotiations with the Trump administration, in an unusual sign of divisions among core government supporters. Miami…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1040+ words) Miami city commissioners on Thursday unanimously gave what could be the final green light to a $40 million plan to rebuild and reopen the historic, long-shuttered Coconut Grove Playhouse after 13 years of legal and political battles. The commission voted 5-0 to grant…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (565+ words) Miami-Dade’s ambitious plan to connect most regions of the county with public transit has hit a costly reality. It will cost a lot of money to build five additional corridors that are part of the 2016 SMART plan. (A sixth corridor,…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (130+ words) Serge Letchimy, president of the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique, was among the leaders who participated in the 51st regular meeting of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, in Saint Lucia, July 5-8, 2026. Martinique along with French Guiana are the newest associate members of the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (319+ words) For over 20 years, starting in the early 1990s, my mother-in-law owned a small jewelry store in downtown Miami. Every afternoon around 4:30 p.m., she would lock the front door, grab her purse and race to her car. She would call her husband or…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (655+ words) As another election approaches, so do familiar attacks on the vote-by-mail system. The claims are usually the same — uncounted ballots, votes cast in someone else’s name, etc. — and they’re almost entirely unfounded. Politicians — chiefly President Donald Trump — have sought to…...