Layton News

SANTA'S FLIGHT PATH CHRISTMAS EVE!!! KEY WEST WEOW 92.7's Rude Girl has gotten advance notice that Santa Claus will once again be dropping down over the Florida Keys to check some flight information on his way to see children in South America on Christmas Eve! Island City Flying Service once again graciously agreed to help Santa with their radar ...

The Stock Island fire station kitchen where firefighter Jay Rivera was cutting vegetables Friday looks more like a broom closet.

It was perhaps fitting that a group of Marathon officials were in Tallahassee this week updating the governor's cabinet on the city's progress in a variety of key areas.

Move over Wyland -- the subjects of your life's work are picking up the brush, too.

Interim City Manager Peter Rosasco will look at something old and something new as he prepares the Marathon City Council to pick a new full-time city manager.

Florida Keys property owners will not end up paying more for the sheriff's $2.4 million emergency helicopter services after all.

The Monroe County Commission on Wednesday approved a $327 million budget and property tax rate that's below rollback for the first time in at least 11 years, but it came at a cost: a 14 percent staff reduction in the past year.

The Monroe County Commission on Wednesday unanimously agreed to kick in money to help pay an attorney and actuary to determine what Florida Keys residents should pay for windstorm insurance.

The Monroe County Commission will formally put in writing what it has said for months.

The bad news for taxpayers and local governments became official Wednesday -- confirmation of the county's sagging property values.

Recycling, or the Florida Keys' lack of it, has been a sticky wicket in recent years.

Florida Keys voters soon may be asked whether to implement a 1-cent sales tax increase to raise about $25 million annually for wastewater upgrades.

Monroe County property values in the past year have dropped anywhere from 9 percent to nearly 24 percent, depending on location, according to the Property Appraiser's Office estimates released Tuesday.