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Nearly every Saturday for 15 years, Key Biscayne's Carlos Mendia would meet his brother-in-law coming from Coral Gables at the entrance of the Rickenbacker Causeway to ride on their bicycles all the way to Starbucks in the Village during a 30-mile route of loops overlooking the Miami skyline. Last Saturday,...

MIAMI — Police in Miami are investigating after they said a 13-year-old girl was hit by a car. They said it happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Northwest Seventh Street and 12th Avenue. According to police, officers responded to the scene after receiving reports of a...

MIAMI (WSVN) - Local leaders are speaking out against the property tax cut proposal that will appear on voters’ ballots in November. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and other local officials joined forces outside a library in Downtown Miami on Wednesday to launch the campaign against the amendment, saying

Photo credit: AI-generated image created using CHATGPT. Illustrative only. Plenty of HOA residents will tell you the hardest part of community living is the monthly fee notice or the occasional argument over paint colors. But in parts of Miami-Dade County, some condo and homeowners’ association residents are now starin

MIAMI (WSVN) - A huge tree toppled onto a car in Miami. City of Miami Fire Rescue units responded to the area along Northeast 20th Street between First and Second avenues. A large limb from the tree also damaged a second car. It is unclear if anyone was inside of...

Raúl Castro, the 95-year-old former Cuban leader, is reportedly gravely ill and hospitalized after an apparent stroke, according to reports that have set off a wave of emotional reaction across South Florida's Cuban exile community. The Cuban government has not publicly confirmed the illness, and state-run Cuban televi

A Miami-Dade man is behind bars after, deputies say, he stabbed his unsuspecting wife in the back — as she slept in their bedroom. Pratapsinh Thakor, 75, appeared on Wednesday in bond court, where a judge told him he will remain at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond. Thakor is facing attempted

Elected leaders from across Miami-Dade and Broward counties are gearing up to battle Florida's "Amendment 3" homestead property tax proposal, seeking to educate voters on what their property taxes actually fund. "Amendment 3 is deceptive. It's being presented as a simple tax cut, but it doesn't eliminate the cost of...

Miami-Dade County has approved a package of four procurement reform ordinances designed to cut the time it takes to award a county contract by more than 60 percent once fully implemented, a process that has historically taken up to 349 days. County officials say the changes, developed under an effort known as STRIP, wi

MIAMI (WSVN) - A man is behind bars after he is alleged to have taken tens of thousands of dollars from his elderly family’s life savings. He is now charged with several first-degree felonies. Sixty-seven year-old Rafael Evelio Barcelo is facing first-degree felony charges, including exploitation or an elderly/disabled