1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (781+ words) Just weeks before the captain in a fatal Florida Keys parasailing accident was set to stand trial, attorneys are clashing over which federal charges he should face. A jury trial is set to begin on Monday, July 27 in Key West…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (470+ words) Florida Keys community members are mobilizing to help the people of Venezuela affected by a pair of powerful earthquakes last week." Intense searches continue following the 7. 2-magnitude and 7. 5-magnitude earthquakes on June 24. Buildings collapsed in the capital of Caracas and…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (460+ words) Searstown Plaza is becoming the Conch Re Publix Shoppes. A five-year construction project to replace one of Key West's three original strip malls began in a visible way this week with the demolition of the long-vacant Sears. The department store…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (128+ words) Keys Weekly Newspapers The Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, in partnership with Islander Resort, welcomed Florida Freedom Tour on June 30 as part of the statewide America 250 commemoration. A traveling outreach initiative designed to bring history directly to communities across the…...

1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (344+ words) This is the story of one of our own. Ben Daniels is a lifelong Florida Keys resident, Marathon High School graduate, devoted father and someone who has quietly touched countless lives throughout our community through banking, real estate, coaching youth…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (196+ words) The Tennessee Williams Museum will move to a new permanent home at 604 Whitehead St. that is expected to open this fall. The museum's current location at 513 Truman Ave. will remain open through July 5. Originally established as a temporary exhibit in…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (114+ words) Keys Weekly Newspapers Marathon Fire Rescue crews quickly extinguished a fire on June 29 at the Key by the Sea mobile home park that destroyed a home. There were no injuries reported, although the home's resident was treated at the scene…...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago  (460+ words) With light winds out of the east, 67 anglers boarded 24 boats for the Florida Keys Elks Lodge's 12th annual Ladies Dolphin Tournament, presented by Townsend Plumbing, on June 13." The combined weight of three fish would decide the winners in this one-day fishing…...

20+ hour, 15+ min ago  (844+ words) A state budget signed by Gov. Ron De Santis on June 29 will send tens of millions of dollars to the Florida Keys." But not all local projects received state funding." In total, De Santis vetoed $1. 7 billion from a budget the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (139+ words) Fourth of July traffic is expected to be heavy throughout the Florida Keys " on and off the water. " Deputies will be on the roadways watching for impaired and unsafe drivers. Don't pass in no-passing zones or in center turn lanes…...