West Palm Beach FL

West Palm Beach, Fla. — A public-private partnership between Gilbane and Palm Beach Atlantic University is set to break ground on a $240 million residence hall project on the university’s campus in downtown West Palm Beach. The 25-story tower will span 319,000 square feet and offer 990 beds across 275 units upon...

As the nation gears up to celebrate Independence Day, the City of West Palm Beach has announced office closures for the holiday. According to the city's official website, West Palm Beach City Hall, the Mandel Public Library, and the Grassy Waters Preserve Nature Center will shut their doors on Friday, July 4 to...

Café Boulud at The Brazilian Court Hotel on Palm Beach has brought back its annual Boulud Sur Mer offerings. This seasonal celebration of the South of France is available through August 31 and is centered around a three-course menu that blends Provençal coastal cuisine with South Florida’s vibrant ingredients.

A seasonal and steamy day with highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s. Chance of showers and thunderstorms later today mainly moving west to east. The timing of these storms will be 3-9 PM. Rain chances will start to ramp up this afternoon from noon until 5 p.m. as...

Palm Beach land baron Ken Griffin likes old things. Like dinosaur bones. Last year, he paid $44.6 million for a late Jurassic-era stegosaurus skeleton that was subsequently named Apex. And paper stuff. In 2021, he spent $43.2 million on an exceedingly rare copy of the U.S. Constitution — one of 14 printed for...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — New details have emerged regarding the death of a 7-year-old girl, believed to have been killed by her mother, which reveal years of documented abuse and abandonment that were allegedly ignored by the system. "This is a child in a domestic battery and then...

It’s something of a rarity for neighbors to gather at a planning board meeting in support of a developer’s proposal to add new construction near their homes, but one East Boca community is largely supporting a proposal to fill in a long-overlooked parcel that has attracted invasive plants and wildlife. “God knows...

Deerfield Beach is honoring Disability Pride Month with a special free screening of Disney’s Out of My Mind on July 25 at the Johnny L. Tigner Community Center, located at 445 SW 2nd Street. The event coincides with the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), highlighting a major milestone in...

The Pap Corps Champions for Cancer Research presented a $3.4 million check to Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the corps’ annual breakfast meeting. The event brought together hundreds of enthusiastic volunteers, prominent sponsors and executive leaders and marked the culmination of a yearlong fundraising...

The year is 1956. A gallon of gas costs 30 cents. California’s Disneyland has just opened, but Florida’s Disney World is still about 15 years away from its debut. In Palm Beach Shores, however, another “happiest place on Earth” exists—and this one is geared toward fishermen.