Miami-Dade County

Police officers responding to a report of someone with a gun threatening to “end it all” outside a downtown Tampa hotel discovered the person in question was the director of the Miami-Dade police force.

The Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation donated to RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys unpaid hospital bills in bulk at a reduced rate and pays them off.

Loved ones and community members demanded action as they gathered in remembrance of farmworker Efraín López García, who died earlier this month while working outdoors in the sweltering heat.

The ordinance calls for a three-tiered system of protections, including a break in shade and safety training. It next goes to a committee meeting, then a full county commission vote.

The county will serve as a test case for the new heat warning levels. If they work well, the weather service may make them permanent and export them to other Florida counties.

The officials from Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Leon counties filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Miami challenging the restrictions, which took effect Saturday.

A college administrator says many students seeking mental health care prefer the privacy of teletherapy over an in-person appointment — even when they call in from an on-campus location.

As federal agencies and local governments reassess flood zones and incorporate new technology, data on sea-level rise and the fact that the concrete jungle doesn’t absorb as much water as the natural environment, they’ve concluded that vast swaths of South Florida — particularly inland areas — are vulnerable to crippling storm surge and flooding from rain.

The nation's first Black female Supreme Court justice will have a street named after her near the South Dade neighborhood where she grew up.

Many employers still deal with staff shortages, so even modest increases in workers calling in sick can be a burden, Meantime, school districts are limited in how they can respond under state mandate restrictions.

Cheers erupted in a Miami-Dade County courtroom on Friday, as more than a dozen people with felony convictions had their right to vote restored by a...

It was noon on Monday and Miami-Dade County was about halfway done with its ballot recount for last week’s elections. Yet next door, in Broward County,...