Keys News

Monroe County Mayor Michelle Lincoln, and Commissioners Holly Merrill Raschein and Jim Scholl, recently joined Monroe County Legislative Affairs Director Lisa Tennyson in Tallahassee for the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) Legislative Day. The annual event on Jan. 21 strengthens relationships with state lawmakers and champions for local and state priorities that protect the Florida Keys’ environment, economy, and quality of life. “Our

If iguanas start falling out of trees this weekend, you can bag them up – alive – and turn them in to FWC. The special exception comes via FWC Executive Order 26-03, published as wind chill temperatures in the 30s and 40s are set to sweep across the Florida Keys this weekend. Under Florida law,

Back when I was a 20-something hippie enchanted with my Key West  home, my friends and I had a lot of time on our hands.  Around 1980, life was relatively simple on the island — a place we all regarded as outside the real world, and therefore not subject to the real world’s rules.   We

A local community center will open its door for area residents needing a warm place amid the frigid temperatures hitting the Florida Keys this weekend. Monroe County Emergency Management announced Friday that it is opening the Plantation Key Community Center, located at 53 High Point Road, in response to the extreme cold temperatures forecasted for

Step aside, Punxsutawney Phil. Winter in the Florida Keys is up to a “mollusk meteorologist.” As the famed groundhog reveals his prediction for the rest of winter in Pennsylvania on Groundhog Day, Monday, Feb. 2, a pink-lipped conch will make a prediction of his own at Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters in Marathon. In what has