Duck Key News

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.

The Redbone Sunrise/Sunset Tarpon Tournament will be at Hawks Cay on Duck Key April 24-26. The tournament will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.Gary Ellis, founder of Redbone Tournaments, said that April is one of the best months for catching tarpon, because it falls right at the start of tarpon season, and there is no better place for ...

Tourist Development Council member Frank Rego resigned from the Monroe County advisory board Friday, saying he needs to focus on family and a new business.Rego recently purchased the convenience-store business at the Tavernier Chevron, mile marker 91.8."I have gone into a new business of my own," Rego said Friday.

Yellowtail, anyone?Fishing on the oceanside of the Florida Keys has been dominated by this species for several weeks now.

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Florida Keys property owners could face $20,000 fees to connect to central sewer systems if Monroe County cannot secure federal and state subsidies, which are becoming increasingly harder to come by in this ...

When Monroe County commissioners met Wednesday a new discussion emerged that could lead to changes in firefighter jurisdiction throughout the Florida Keys, which drew vocal opposition from the county's interim ...

Monroe County will begin negotiations with the interim fire chief to find a permanent leader for the department after commissioners on Wednesdayrejected the county administrator's top pick because of contract ...

A two-story house at mile marker 99 of U.S. 1 was destroyed by fire Saturday morning.The fire was reported just after 6 a.m. at 221 Harbor Drive, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says.

No one was injured early Friday when a large fire destroyed two rental town houses in the tony Hawks Cay resort on Duck Key, drawing multiple fire crews in the Upper Keys.

Two homes in Hawks Cay, an upscale resort on Duck Key, appraised at about $750,000 each burned in an early Friday morning fire that drew fire crews throughout the Upper Keys, said Monroe County Interim Fire ...