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Shadow PAC and Mayor’s Campaign Exposed Paying Same Miami Political Firm; Walsh Hotel Empire Pumps $15,000 Into Niles Operation.
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Islands of Islamorada Resort Sells for $38.4M — Nearly Half Its 2024 Price
ISLAMORADA, Fla. — A luxury Upper Keys resort has changed hands for $38.4 million — a little more than half what it fetched two years ago — in a deal that expands Miami developer Mast Capital’s growing Florida Keys hospitality portfolio.
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The Goings On at College of the Florida Keys are a Microcosm of DumbSantis’ Destruction of Higher Ed State-wide
If you thought last week’s shenanigans by the “trustees” of the College of the Florida Keys were about Key deer, think again.
Keys Haitian TPS Holders Lose Driving Privileges as Monday Deadline Looms
KEY WEST, Fla. — Haitian workers across the Florida Keys lost their driving privileges Friday when TPS-linked licenses expired, even as federal protections remain technically in force through Monday — leaving anyone who gets behind the wheel in violation of Florida law.
Channel 10 also had coverage of the Haitia TPS crisis as uncertainty looms over more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants in Florida who form the backbone of Monroe County’s service industries.
COAST GUARD, FWC RAMP UP ENFORCEMENT AHEAD OF LOBSTER MINI-SEASON JULY 29-30
Federal and state agencies are running safety inspections and fishery boarding's ahead of Wednesday’s two-day sport season, with the Sheriff’s Office deploying extra patrols at ramps, bridges and open water. Enforcement targets include Sanctuary preservation areas a week after Canadian tourist Marko Gacic was caught spearfishing lobster off Islamorada.
Keys Weekly reports this year’s safety campaign honors Jocelyn Brown.
KEYS CORAL SCIENTISTS ADAPT TO SECOND EL NINO WITH GENE BANKS, COOLING RIGS
WUSF’s July 27 report details how Keys researchers are preparing for an El Nino event expected to rival or exceed 2023’s record bleaching: heat-resistant corals via selective genetics, two gene banks, and floating-canopy cooling experiments.
Evacuated Elkhorn corals are intemperature-controlled tanks for three to five months. NOAA Bleaching Alert Level 2 is expected to persist through October.
TAMPA LAWYER MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST ‘YOUNG HEMINGWAY’ WINNER AT SLOPPY JOE’S
Chris Dutton, 39, a Tampa attorney, won the 2026 Hemingway Look-Alike Contest Saturday — the first contestant ever to win portraying a younger Hemingway rather than the white-bearded elder. He beat 134 registered contestants across two preliminary rounds, closing out Hemingway Days on the 127th anniversary of Hemingway’s birth.