State Rep. Ron Saunders has called a summit to focus on the future of the Keys.
Last year, he started holding so-called sewer summits to bring together the various Keys factions who have dogs in the hunt when it comes to wastewater treatment.
Posted - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:01 AM EST
The first eight years of a two-decade schedule to restore the Everglades and Florida Bay have produced few tangible changes, experts acknowledged Tuesday. Even the term "restoration" is misleading, federal and state officials said at a daylong workshop in Tavernier.
Posted - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Two state parks in the Florida Keys have been targeted for closure if legislators make significant budget cuts.
Posted - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Marathon City Manager Clyde Burnett announced plans Monday for a sales pitch of epic proportion.
Posted - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:01 AM EST
County Engineer Dave Koppel could be out of a job.
The long-delayed Key West International Airport construction project got a new boss Friday in a move signaling an imminent shakeup in senior county management.
Posted - Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:18 AM EST
The Freeman Justice Center cost more than $17 million. It officially opened Friday.
Some 15 or so years and $17.3 million later, Monroe County has a new courthouse in Key West.
Posted - Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Following a round of damning surveys conducted by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the federal Department of Health and Human Services, it looks like the Key West Convalescent Center, home to 80 dependent patients, may be closing.
Posted - Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:01 AM EST
The Monroe County School Board is expected to select a new chair for the coming year at its meeting Tuesday, and current Chairman Steve Pribramsky said he's ready to nominate his board ally John Dick as his successor.
Posted - Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:01 AM EST
This is an aerial view of Gulf Seafood on Stock Island.
Monroe County is set to apply for a grant to acquire working waterfront that may one day secure a Stock Island property capable of housing one-third of all Lower Keys commercial fishermen.
Posted - Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:01 AM EST
A final decision on a pending ban on grouper fishing is not expected before early December -- but a Key West charter captain said the chances of relief seem bleak.
Posted - Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:01 AM EST
