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Amtrak to debut new, temporary route from Miami to Chicago
Amtrak will debut a new route in November that’ll take travelers from Miami to Chicago and back for a limited time, the transit service announced Monday.
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DeSantis expands Florida emergency declaration for Helene, urges preparation
Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded an emergency declaration to 61 counties on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Helene formed and continued to move toward Florida.
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‘Come and visit': Inside a Buddhist temple in Homestead and the people who call it home
While the abbot may be the founding rock, it’s clear that the temple’s beating heart is made up of families who want to share it with the wider community.
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Video shows father and son on watercraft before fatal Florida Keys crash
A father and son who were killed in the Florida Keys were seen riding a personal watercraft together in surveillance video taken before the fatal crash.
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‘Florida is getting it right': Attorney general says fentanyl deaths are down, battle continues
Drug-related, opioid-caused and fentanyl-caused deaths are all on the decline in Florida, but work must continue to contain the crisis still claiming thousands of lives, the state’s attorney general said at a news conference Tuesday.
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Busting 4 pet adoption myths as South Florida animal shelters face overcrowding
The situation at Miami-Dade and Broward counties’ animal shelters is dire, officials say, as hundreds of dogs and cats wait for their chance at a forever home. “The [Pet Adoption and Protection Center in Doral] was built to have a capacity of about 350 dogs and about 100 cats. Currently we have a total of 636 dogs in our population,…
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This kinky bird could be making a comeback in South Florida
Though American flamingos are native to South Florida, they have not nested or existed in significant, wild populations here for more than a century.
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This Florida city is now in the U.S.'s top 10 most-populated – and it's not Miami
The U.S. Census Bureau released a report earlier this month on population change in cities across the county, and the data might just have you spitting out your cafecito.
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Miami Beach prepares for Memorial Day with parking fees, traffic restrictions
The city is implementing what it calls “high-impact measures” from Friday to Monday
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Hundreds of Santas Ski, Snowboard to Raise Climate Change Awareness
Hundreds of people in candy cane-colored suits gathered at the bottom of a mountain in the Angeles National Forest Sunday morning to ride the chairlift together, up to the top. Once there, the throng zoomed down the snowy slope at Mountain High Resorts. One woman bundled up in the familiar getup laughed and trudged back up the mountain with her…