Miami-Dade County

A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to capture it. The monster python was 18 feet, eight inches long, beating the previous...

A scenic highway on the edge of the Everglades, U.S. 27 seems far away from the hustle and bustle of interstate commerce. It has no strip malls, few stoplights and gas stations. Vast open land — sugar cane fields, farms, sawgrass — surrounds...

MIAMI - There are many Vanderbilt mansions, all of them grander, and certainly larger, than the relatively modest manse on Miami's Fisher Island that bears the famous family name. Ah, but if only you could see it - the beautifully proportioned stone...

Broward County took home better grades from small business owners and entrepreneurs than did Miami-Dade County and the Orlando metro area, according to a website polling of small business leaders. Thumbtack.com, an Internet marketplace for local...

After several days with hot stormy afternoons, expect cooler and drier conditions today. It also should be mostly sunny and breezy. South Florida's Tuesday forecast calls for afternoon highs in the low 80s and evening readings in the upper 60s. Winds...

Beacon Investment Properties is on a growth spurt. The 10-year-old commercial real estate firm based in Hallandale Beach has bought 3.1 million square feet of office buildings across the country during the past six months. The most recent deal: A $253...

Maybe the Dolphins should do what the Green Bay Packers did and sell shares to the general public to help finance the renovation of their stadium. This way everybody wins. The Dolphins get their stadium fixed up and the taxpayers don't have to foot the...

Hundreds of South Floridians showed up at Sun Life Stadium on Thursday for what the Miami Dolphins dubbed an "opportunity fair" for job seekers interested in helping modernize the venue. South Florida Workforce, the agency helping identify the workers,...

Crashes and other incidents being reported on area roadways Friday morning by the Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Transportation include: Shortly after 7:30 a.m., all southbound lanes of I-95 approaching Ives Dairy Road in north Miami-...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature used its next-to-last day Thursday to pass a watered-down texting-while-driving ban, a plan to slim down the state-run Citizens Property Insurance and legislation that strips local governments of the power to...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court rejected on Thursday the challenge to a controversial law that allows electric utilities to collect money from their customers for nuclear-power plants that won't be built for years — if ever. The...

Nearly a month after a fiery wrong-way crash that left four people dead on Interstate 95, the man suspected of causing the collision is finally in jail. Willie Dumel, 25, who suffered broken legs in the April 3 head-on collision, had been undergoing...