Key Largo News

The annual government summer budget season is about to hit full swing in the Keys.Key Colony Beach kicked things off with its initial budget hearing Monday morning, while Monroe County held a special meeting Tuesday to discuss part of its fiscal year 2013-14 spending and long-term capital improvement plan.The remaining Keys governments are set to ... (more)

Several thousand certified divers visit the Florida Keys annually to dive a string of sunken vessels and artificial reefs between Key Largo and Key West, prompting the extension through Jan. 1, 2014, of what's called the Wreck Trek Passport Program that rewards divers for logging a series of wreck dives.

The Monroe County Commission agreed to move forward on $38 million in capital improvement projects over the next five years, including buying Rowell's Marina in Key Largo and taking over the Old Seven Mile Bridge from the state.

State officials will meet next week with the public to review management plans for Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.

Food, fun and fireworks are on tap in the Florida Keys during the July 4 holiday.

City commissioners Tuesday night will most likely approve an ordinance streamlining the city's bills for solid waste and stormwater services, spokeswoman Alyson Crean said in an email.

A mother who disappeared from her central Pennsylvania home in 2002 and was later declared legally dead before resurfacing in the Florida Keys on April 26 has been sent to jail on a probation violation.The Pensacola News Journal reports that Brenda Heist, who's known in the Santa Rosa County court system as Kelsie Smith, was sentenced Tuesday to a ... (more)

A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly pointed a gun at her roommate after he hid her vodka from her, police said.

U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia wants to start a national discussion about the issue of exempting privately owned military housing in Key West and elsewhere from local property taxes.Friday afternoon, Garcia, a Miami Democrat who represents the Keys, said an amendment he proposed for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, which passed the House ... (more)

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The village of Islamorada’s $91 million wastewater construction project is ahead of schedule, but about 200 residents of one subdivision will have to wait for the outcome of a lawsuit before they can connect to the system.

A Key Largo woman was charged with aggravated assault Wednesday after she pulled a handgun on one of her roommates after he hid her vodka, police say.When Sgt.

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The following is an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's "Bad Monkey," which was released on Tuesday.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday identified a body found offshore Saturday as Frank Cowley III of Margate.

Larvicide can treat containers too large to move. DEET: Repellents containing up to 30 percent DEET are recommended.

A temporary state rule declaring open season on lionfish may become permanent as a measure to keep the invasive species from becoming permanent Florida residents.

Korean War veteran Gabe Spataro's recent dive to an underwater statue of Jesus he helped transport from Italy to the United States was a reunion 51 years in the making.

A temporary state rule declaring open season on lionfish may become permanent as a measure to keep the invasive species from becoming permanent Florida residents.

Two South Florida doctors became "dope dealers" who prescribed massive doses of pain pills - resulting in the overdose deaths of nine people under their care, federal prosecutors said Friday as the physicians' criminal trial began.