This is how the Luhrs ended up -- or down, depending on your perspective -- when it sunk at the site of the 'Eagle.'
The Eagle shipwreck off Islamorada had company drop in this week: A private sportfishing boat took on water and sank quickly while tied to a mooring ball at the popular diving site Monday.
Posted - Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:40 AM EST
The Key West City Commission is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the first reading of an ordinance that would create a mandatory residential recycling program.
Posted - Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:35 AM EST
A long-delayed hearing on whether to raise sewer rates as much as 57 percent on Stock Island is finally scheduled to go before the Florida Public Service Commission Tuesday.
Posted - Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:32 AM EST
Cruise ships, sometimes as many as three per day, provide a welcome injection of tourist dollars to Key West, especially over the holidays. This ship was docked Friday.
The Christmas holiday corresponds with the beginning of the Key West's tourist season, and although local businesses felt the effects of the tourist injection, what will happen the rest of the season remains unknown.
Posted - Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:26 AM EST
Marathon Planning Commissioner Larry Shaffer has formally appealed a ruling made by his own board Dec. 15 granting a 9-foot height limit variance to city Finance Director Peter Rosasco for a proposed hotel.
Posted - Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:24 AM EST
THEY’RE HERE A line of cars heading down the Keys stretches from Plantation Key over the Snake Creek Bridge and onto Windley Key on Monday, Dec. 29. Business owners say they’ve seen a surge in visitors starting last week.
What is historically the busiest time of the year in the Upper Keys — the week between Christmas and New Year’s — didn’t disappoint in 2008, despite it following what was widely considered a dismal fall.
Posted - Friday, January 02, 2009 11:29 AM EST
Florida's bridge and shore anglers are raising concern for federal fishery managers.
Posted - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Marathon residents unhappy with a decision to allow the city finance director to build a hotel over the height limit are free to appeal.
Posted - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Jeff Raumer moved to Key West for a fresh start, but he's finding the same financial problems he had in Minnesota. He's among those who have applied for food stamps just to get by.
"I'm a homeless vet. I'm applying for food stamp assistance and looking for work," Jeff Raumer said as he waited to talk to a state Department of Children and Families case worker Tuesday in Key West.
Posted - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Only a bare concrete pad and a torn piece of yellow crime-scene tape mark the spot where Henry Atkinson II died early Friday.
Posted - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 07:01 AM EST
