Gulf Stream News

Steve Hoffman, of Lighthouse Point, feels a bit bullied these days. He's a smoker, a shrinking class of Floridians that's feeling overtaxed since a $1 hike on a pack of cigarettes hit convenience stores across the state.

Nan McConnaughey remembers everything about April 30, 1999. It was a day at sea during a trans-Atlantic voyage from Ft.

Updated 4 p.m. Friday - SOUTH PALM BEACH - Vice Mayor Chuck McCrosson declared his candidacy Thursday for Jeff Atwater's Florida Senate seat.

George Will has an important column today about the economic cost of Spain's wind energy program.

Published: Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7:26 p.m. Sarasota city commissioners' latest directive on U.S. 41 roundabouts doesn't resolve a long-running community controversy.

Bill Hager, Republican candidate for the State House seat in District 87, will kick off his campaign with a fundraiser June 24 at 5:30 p.m. at Bogart's Grille in Boca Raton Included as hosts are Boca Raton Mayor Susan Whelchel and members of the City Council, including Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie, Constance Scott, Anthony Majhess, and Michael ...

The 2009 Ed Dwyer Otherside Invitational tuna tournament will take place Friday through Sunday out of Port Canaveral.

While Congress considers opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil-and-gas drilling, experts on ocean currents warn of a potential environmental nightmare that could reach the coast of South Florida.

Florida residents know more than most other Americans about hurricanes and the devastation they bring.

Aloha Krueger, a 95-year-old Gulf Stream resident known for her beauty, good sense and fun poems, sent this example of her handiwork to Charm recently.

A second person faces charges in the case of a migrant-smuggling boat that capsized May 13 off South Florida's coast, killing nine people.

Volkswagen has called its new workhorse ute the Amarok, continuing its policy of naming its vehicles after natural phenomena and mythical creatures.

Growing up in the northern half of the country, the Gulf Stream was more of an abstraction than a reality to me.

It may not be actually be summer yet -- that happens on June 21 -- but we're into some of the finest summer fishing we can have.Great tarpon fishing still abounds, both on the flats and around the bridge channels; most of the day will produce action in one venue or the other.

A day late and a dollar short, as the old saying goes. Capt. Tony Spohn, owner of the Conch Picker and Lady D charter boats all from Key Largo gave a recent account of one of those bittersweet stories.

Armchair meteorologists in Southwest Florida will be better equipped with this list of hurricane forecasting terms.

In update #3 of this low pressure of interest with origins near the Bahamas, this low is now working off the Carolina Coast this morning and will skirt by the Outer Banks during the day.

There is a place where the warm waters of the Gulf Stream regulate average temperatures to a blissful 89 to 74 degrees in August and a balmy 79 to 63 degrees in December.

Town Attorney John "Skip" Randolph must be doing something right, Mayor Jack McDonald told the Town Council last week.

Geoff Quatraro displays a yellowfin tuna he caught aboard 'Starvation' out of Fort Pierce.