The nation’s highest court will soon decide if it’s legal to fire someone based on gender identity or sexual orientation — and Florida activists are watching closely to see how the decision will affect the LGBTQ community in the Sunshine State.
Miami avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Dorian, but hundreds of residents were still threatened with the loss of their homes and businesses before the storm.
A bill that would ban abortion after six weeks and criminalize the medical procedure was filed in the Florida House yesterday, the same day a federal judge in Atlanta temporarily blocked similar legislation in Georgia.
Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin and the founder of the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families that have lost loved ones to gun violence, has picked up several major endorsements from members of the Democratic Party this week.
Miami is a worldwide tourist destination for its beautiful beaches and clean water — but nobody can enjoy it when shit is spilling into the bay. Aging pipes installed near Oleta River State Park in the ‘960s ruptured last month, resulting in 1.5 million gallons of raw sewage leaking into the Oleta River and Biscayne Bay.
A little over a year ago, 15-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg took time off from school to sit outside the Parliament of Sweden while holding a sign that translated to “school strike for the climate.” Within weeks, students from other European countries, including Germany and Holland, replicated Thunberg’s effort…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday announced the repeal of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, eliminating the clean-water regulations enacted by the Obama administration in 2015 and making it easier for polluters to use chemicals linked to toxic algal blooms.
Miami dodged a bullet last week. Hurricane Dorian, just a wobble off South Florida’s coast, was one of the strongest and longest-lasting Atlantic hurricanes on record.
Thousands of children in Florida have been kept in conditions that a United Nations special report on torture calls “cruel, inhuman, or degrading.”
Dozens of kilos of cocaine are washing ashore on Florida’s beaches as Hurricane Dorian moves toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas.
The story of Maria Cazañes, the longtime Miami Beach resident evicted from her home as Hurricane Dorian approached, has spurred lawmakers to take action.
Miamians are rallying together to help their island neighbors as Hurricane Dorian continues to bulldoze the Bahamas. Dorian rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend before making landfall in the Bahamas yesterday.
Hurricane Dorian couldn’t have arrived at a worse time for families of Florida’s incarcerated. Many had planned their three-day holiday weekend around visiting their loved ones, only to receive the news Thursday evening that visitation had been canceled throughout the state.
Miami Beach residents were boarding up their windows Friday as the threat of Hurricane Dorian still loomed, but one 75-year-old woman instead had all of her belongings thrown out into the street behind her apartment in South Beach.
The likelihood that Hurricane Dorian will make hit the Sunshine State is increasing. The storm is now predicted to make landfall on Florida’s east coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Labor Day, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest projections, released at 5 p.m.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis formally declared a state of emergency this afternoon as Hurricane Dorian continues on its path toward South Florida.
A new TV ad campaign is hitting Florida airwaves to ask Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to take national action against gun violence and pass background-check and red-flag laws.
The long-awaited Trader Joe’s store in South Beach opened its doors the morning of Tuesday, August 27.
I’m a fifth-generation Californian whose family has always called the San Francisco Bay Area home. My great-greatgrandparents met at the original Palace Hotel before it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Besides a short stint in New York City for grad school, California is the only…
Friday afternoon, a simulated jail cell was placed on the University of Miami’s campus to raise awareness about the lack of air conditioning and ventilation in Florida’s state prisons.
Last week, the Trump administration severely weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in a series of changes that included erasing climate change as a threat to wildlife and removing protections from threatened species. In response, a group of environmental and animal protection organizations has filed a lawsuit arguing the amendments violate the law.
After a month marked by two deadly mass shootings merely hours apart in El Paso and Dayton, Florida House Democrats have forced the state Legislature to vote on hosting a special session to address gun violence.
