Duck Key News

Monroe County's October unemployment rate was essentially unchanged from September, with 7 percent of the county's 46,986-person labor force - that's 3,301 people - looking for work.

State lawmakers can travel when and where they want on the taxpayer's tab. Over the past three years, they have spent about $251,000 on conferences in places like Quebec City, Canada; St.

Gov. Charlie Crist is scheduled to help release an endangered green sea turtle off the Florida Keys at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

MAINE $149 and up at Linekin Bay Resort when you stay the week of 8/22-29. After that, fall rates plummet to $69 midweek -- stay 2, get the third free.

National and local authorities on Thursday blamed each other for street battles that erupted the the previous day in the small town of Curiepe as the national guard evicted the opposition-led state police.

Hawks Cay was the only resort in the Keys chosen by readers of Travel + Leisure as one of the top 50 resorts in the United States and Canada, and was also named the second top resort in the state, bested only by the Ritz-Carlton in Naples.Hotels were ranked by readers of the magazine in the 14th annual survey.

Ignacio Martinez says he loves the challenge of reviving struggling businesses.A 30-year veteran of the auto industry, where he worked as a dealership general manger in Miami and New York City, Martinez said it was time for a new challenge."My wife and I started looking all over the Caribbean for some kind of an opportunity.

The Great Florida Adventure 2009 has come to a close. Yes, Team Gibbons has completed its summer sojourn, putting behind us much of the state of Florida during our road trip down to the Keys, across the Everglades, up to Sarasota and Tampa and a stopover in Orlando.

Bringing the kids is child's play: The only thing the children won't get at our top 10 family-friendly resorts is bored.

Turtle Hospital officials are planning quite the going-away blowout for one loggerhead turtle that swam up to the docks behind the Marathon-based facility in late March.

The operator of Lakeway Resort and Spa on Lake Travis has brought in lodging executive Stephen Bello as the property's new general manager.

Q: Thanks to my wife's parents, we always were able to live beyond our means. My wife and I have been married for thirty-five years.