Malabar News

The state will not pursue arson charges against Palm Bay vagrant Brian Crowder, accused of setting at least one of the brush fires in May.

The state will not pursue arson charges against Palm Bay vagrant Brian Crowder, accused of setting at least one of the brush fires in May.

A long-planned project to keep stormwater runoff and other sediments from choking off Turkey Creek will get a boost from the city by the end of the year.

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For many Space Coast seniors, Meals on Wheels is a godsend. The program provides nutritious food and, just as important, a friendly hello for dessert.

The local Meals on Wheels program is feeling the impact of higher gas prices, including difficulty in recruiting new drivers and seeing more volunteers seeking reimbursement for their driving expenses.

Ed Ryan said the firestorm sounded like a jet engine as the flames roared up parched pine trees and rushed toward his home on Garbett Avenue Southwest, knocking out electricity, while he hurried to hook hoses ...

Malabar residents live there because they like living in a small town, but that doesn't mean they like having a small Town Hall.

A Malabar man and woman who attempted to break into the home of a past acquaintance before being chased away by a bat-wielding homeowner have been ordered not to return to the site, police said.

The lack of formal charges nearly six weeks after he was booked in connection with a string of fires in Palm Bay led to the cancellation of a second court appearance Friday for accused arsonist Brian Crowder.

Today, the Florida Public Service Commission will get an earful from the state's power utilities about why higher energy prices means they need more of their customers' money.

The Brentwood Lakes Preserves and Estates subdivisions rose up in a clearing in 2006, with dozens of homes lining its streets five miles west of Interstate 95 off Malabar Road.

The Mother's Day wildfires destroyed two homes in Malabar, but the damage could have been worse if Indian River County hadn't sent a truck with a 100-foot ladder to help.

The Mother's Day wildfires in South Brevard stopped in their tracks when they hit Environmentally Endangered Lands in Malabar and Micco that earlier had been through prescribed burns, officials said.

Dogs such as Mango, Roxie and Shadow will continue to rest in cages where prisoners were meant to sleep in bunks because of spending cuts in the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.

Dozens of people are still trying to put their lives back together after they lost everything in the Palm Bay and Malabar Wildfires.

Chuck Sexton, 85, wandered onto the crunchy, brown, dead grass of the former Port Malabar Country Club and remembered how lush the fairway was when he moved into his Waialae Circle home in 1972.

The Salvation Army South Brevard Corps is distributing donated funds to the victims of the May fires whose homes were destroyed or damaged.

Edgar Anderson, 75, reached into the powdery, gray ashes of the home he lived in for 25 years and pulled out two ceramic coffee cups.

Brevard County Fire-Rescue is reporting to a report of a growing brush fire off McCain Lane.