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The Monroe County Sheriff鈥檚 Office confirmed Thursday that they have an open investigation into the county鈥檚 Parks and Beaches Department over their cash handling practices. The move comes on the heels of an audit conducted by the Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller鈥檚 office released last week.
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Five high school seniors visited Key West from other parts of the country through a program called the American Exchange Project. The goal: send students to politically, socio-economically, and culturally places different from their hometowns.
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Despite being a chain of coastal communities vulnerable to hurricanes, Monroe County was one of the last areas in Florida without an Emergency Operations Center. With just two full months left this hurricane season, local officials in the Florida Keys have finally cut the ribbon on a new EOC.
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Ellen Brown Anderson's novella The Storm is set in Key West after a major hurricane and tells a story of domestic life in those frontier days of Florida.
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Two more artificial reef projects are underway in the Florida Keys, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Tuesday. The network will be placed in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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A billionaire spacewalker is back on Earth. SpaceX's capsule carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida's Dry Tortugas early Sunday.
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Amid two ongoing government scandals, Monroe County commissioners have now said they鈥檒l consider hiring a consulting firm to review all county departments and their processes.
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Months after the Florida Keys鈥 top tourism director was fired following several audits of the Tourist Development Council, the county now faces a whistleblower lawsuit.
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A draft update to the state's water quality rules omits a recommendation to set stricter limits on turbidity that can damage imperiled reefs.
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Several stations used by boaters, divers, researchers and meteorologists as a critical tool to understand sea surface conditions are becoming derelict and decommissioned, leaving those who rely on them, in the dark.
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This new discovery in the Florida Keys comes just weeks after the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported 25 packages of cocaine blew onto another beach in the aftermath of Hurricane Debby.
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Florida Keys food pantries are struggling to stay stocked up at a time when they鈥檙e seeing demand for food nearly double. 鈥淭he bottom line is Monroe is really starving right now,鈥 said the CEO of the largest food pantry operator in the Keys.