A nonprofit wants to turn shipping containers into temporary homes for people living in Miami’s slums.

Among modern, industrialized countries, the U.S. is pretty much alone in not forcing employers to give paid leave to new parents. But in the last year, a handful of local municipalities in South Florida have decided to give that benefit to their own workers. In February, Miami-Dade County approved six…

When Grant Stern sent a critical tweet at Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine over the summer, the politician quickly blocked the local activist. So Stern took his comments to the mayor’s official Facebook page and was swiftly blocked there, too. Soon, he says, he heard from dozens of others who…

“An alien invader.” “Pretty much appalling.” “An eyesore.” “Cheap looking, inappropriate and ugly.” A “monstrosity.” It’s no secret some Coral Gables residents dislike the million-dollar sculptures that now grace two traffic circles on Segovia Way, but emails sent to the city commission reveal the depths of their distaste for the brightly…

Sana Ullah and her sister were shopping at Sawgrass Mills Mall when they realized it was time to pray. They grabbed “probably the ugliest shirt” in the store, she recalls, and hurried into a changing room. The whole situation had Ullah laughing to herslf. It was hardly the first time…

Aprille Hinnant thought WEDR 99JAMZ radio host Maestro Powell was protecting her from the belly of the beast of the industry,” she says. He told her not to talk to anyone else at the station. Don;t mention the training, he said. As the program director and main personality of 99JAMZ’s Sunday morning…

In a video making the rounds online, a man toting a pair of pruning shears rushes up to people posing for selfies and cuts their selfie sticks in half, running away as their cellphones crash to the ground. Some scream; others chase after him. Filmed in New York City, the…

Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco doesn’t remember exactly what the signs said, but he says the message was basically, “No bicycles, no fun, no breathing.” When someone sent him a picture of the new signage, which was being installed at Lummus Park, he was furious.  Hours later, the signs were…

Coral Gables recently paid around $1 million for a pair of flower-like sculptures to celebrate its roots as a garden city. But some residents say the artwork, which was installed in traffic circles on Segovia Street in June, looks more like “Little Shop of Horrors.” They claim the brightly colored…

The bodies of scores of Miami’s black pioneers fill a five-acre piece of prairie in South Miami-Dade near South Dixie Highway and Coconut Palm Drive. Many of the forenames are forgotten, but the family names can be found in the county’s halls of power and history books: Cherry, Richardson, Perry,…