Biscayne National Park isn’t just one of South Florida’s crown natural jewels, its pristine waters are also a favorite of fisherman around the world. But decades of pollution and overfishing have wreaked havoc on the park’s reef fish and coral habitats. Now the park is proposing a drastic change to…
In mid-April, 39-year-old Belkys Jimenez came down with a high fever. She also developed a headache and then severe pain in her muscles and joints. Her feet and ankles became swollen, making walking painful. Jimenez had long battled hypertension, but this was clearly something new. Over the next two weeks,…
What’s your condo horror story? An air-conditioning unit that wasn’t fixed for weeks? A neighbor whose loud music kept you up all night? How about a general contractor who ultimately bilked the condo association out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while residents were left with flooded apartments and spotty…
What’s a Miami sneaker fiend to do now that LeBron James is back in Cleveland? Do you still rock your Nike LeBron XIs? Or do you consider Dwyane Wade’s line with Chinese apparel company Li-Ning? Because Wade has an eye-catching new design out aimed directly at anyone fascinated with Miami…
Last summer’s crackdown on allegedly corrupt local mayors has netted prosecutors a two-out-of-three conviction rate. Former Homestead mayor Steve Bateman was found guilty by a jury this afternoon on two corruption charges. The verdict follows a guilty plea from former Sweetwater mayor Manuel Maroño and a not-guilty verdict for suspended…
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Back in 1988, the Miami Herald published a story claiming that Colorado Senator and then Democratic presidential hopeful Gary Hart was having an affair with 29-year-old, Miami-based model Donna Rice. It ruined Hart’s political career and presidential aspirations, and changed political reporting forever by affirming that a candidate’s sex scandals…
Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft visited Miami for a special report that aired this weekend, looking into the booming trend of identity thieves stealing personal data to scam the government out of tax returns. Instead, after hearing about Miami’s oversize role in the fraud, he ended up tackling a…
Listen up, kids. Next time you think science is boring, consider how Thaddeus McRae spent two years of his life: namely, chasing squirrels around the University of Miami campus with a remote-controlled cat on wheels and gliders painted to look like hawks. “We had some very interesting interactions,” McRae tells…
Sunday’s 34-15 loss to the injury-depleted and talent-deficient Kansas City Chiefs proved that once again the Miami Dolphins have it all wrong. It’s painfully obvious, and Dolphins fans can’t take it anymore. In fact, the game was so bad that Fins faithful began kicking one anothers’ asses in the stands…
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As Miami’s real estate market has boomed to glittering new heights of luxury since 2010, the area’s median household income remains the second lowest of any major metro area while poverty has continued to increase. It’s embarrassing, if not depressing. See also: Miamians Can’t Afford to Buy Condos in Miami…
We imagine an entry from a history book 1,000 years in the future will read like this: “Though automobiles were present across the globe, few countries worshipped their cars quite like the United States. In the suburbs, Americans tended to build rooms for their cars in their homes as if…
Next Saturday the R.Y.P.E. Community Garden in Buena Vista will host en event. It’s a goodbye party — the garden will soon be demolished so a parking lot can be built in its place. “Pave paradise to put up a parking lot. Sooo sorry,” wrote Atiya Guianese on the event’s…
The last time Shaq signed up to be South Florida cop, his application was a memorable catastrophe. In addition to claiming one of the greatest skill sets in law enforcement — “Laptop computer, binnochulars [sic], master of surveillance” — Shaq papered over his involvement in a violent Disney World altercation…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week: Refrigerator emergencies, shoplifting toddlers, and sex crimes at a yoga class…
Twenty-one-year-old Ultra-goer Adonis Peña Escoto died March 30 after attending the second night of the three-day EDM fest, but the cause of his death had been a mystery until now. A Miami-Dade Medical Examiner report obtained Thursday by New Times at last sheds some light on what killed him. The…
The U.S. Coast Guard will be unloading 719 kilograms of cocaine today at its station in Miami Beach. That comes with an estimated street value of about $23 million. The coke was intercepted in the Caribbean on September 8 by Coast Guard Cutter Bear…
Miami may be looking to the past for its public transportation future. In the ’20s and ’30s, streetcars zoomed through the city of Miami, and now city commissioners have renewed a push to bring them back. According to Miami Today, the plan had gained steam back in 2006 but lost…
Yet another park in Miami-Dade has been fenced off today after officials found high levels of arsenic in the soil. This time, it’s the athletic fields at Colonial Drive Park that have been closed. “The closure has been implemented out of an abundance of caution and as a proactive measure,”…
One day after police found a badly decayed body in the trunk of a missing Miami woman’s car, her family says that the medical examiner has confirmed their worst fears: Dental records from the corpse matched 28-year-old Tanya Gonzalez. The news comes a day after a wild chase in the…
A month ago, state regulators raised the alarm over silt from the Deep Dredge killing Miami corals. Now the feds are stepping in as well. According to documents obtained by New Times, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a scathing set of recommendations for saving endangered coral threatened…
