Micco News

Brevard County Fire-Rescue crews are mopping up a small brush fire spreading several feet from at least two homes.

Brevard County's next fiscal budget may include $40 million in spending cuts and elimination of 199 jobs, Commission Chairman Chuck Nelson said.

The byproducts lurk everywhere, from the chlorinated water that irrigates lawns, golf courses and parks, to sewage that seeps from septic tanks into groundwater supplies.

The skies explode with brilliant bursts of color only twice a year. And if you've been sweatin' up a storm, then Fourth of July fireworks are about to light up your night, whether at a large-scale public event or in your neighborhood backyards.

When Brevard County bought the historic Couch Manufacturing Co. site to build a much-needed boat ramp and park along the Indian River Lagoon, it got a 5-acre brownfield contaminated with asbestos-filled buildings and decades of accumulated solvents, lubricants and fuels.

A strong line of thunderstorms moving in from the west will bring up to an inch of rain to many areas of Brevard County, the National Weather Service said.

Sheriff's drug agents are seeking felony arrest warrants for 10 south Brevard County residents suspected of dealing drugs.

"Forget your troubles, c'mon get happy" seems to be the refrain for volunteers with the Melbourne Art Festival.

Sheriff's deputies arrested a suspected burglar today who appeared in an image published in FLORIDA TODAY from a burglary victim's home-security camera.

The Brevard County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man who stole a motor off a boat parked at a Micco residence.