Big Coppitt Key News

The key witness in an arson case has recanted statements police say implicate a former city commissioner's son, claiming Spanish translators erred and misinterpreted his words.

Work crews are putting the finishing touches on the first of 18 new Habitat for Humanity homes on Big Coppitt Key.

City officials in Key West are trying to help local contractors by changing an existing law.

After years of financial planning, Monroe County Fire Rescue is set to unveil a modern $3.2 million fire station Saturday, dedicating the new facility in the memory of the county's first paid fire chief, who died last year.

The partial remains of what appear to be the remains of a missing Big Coppitt Key man have been found by the U.S. Coast Guard near the Western Sambos off the Atlantic side of the Lower Keys.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says it received a call on Saturday from a person who'd been walking along Boca Chica Beach on Big Coppitt and found a boat ...

The Monroe County Commission this month will set a property tax rate and approve the final budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year, which starts in October.

The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority on Tuesday set a new wastewater rate for Lower Keys residents served by the Big Coppitt Wastewater District, which recently went on line.

Wilner Labrenche, a longtime cook at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, was working Sunday evening when a roommate called to say their home was on fire.

Wilner Labrenche, a longtime cook at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, was working Sunday evening when a roommate called to say their home was on fire.

Lower Keys property owners could pay anywhere from $2,000 to $3,800 more than what some of their neighbors have paid to connect to a state-mandated central wastewater system.

Mary Woodrum was walking into work Wednesday at The Laundry Loft in the Winn-Dixie shopping center on Big Pine Key when she noticed a plume of black smoke on the horizon.

A Navy cold-case unit is re-examining evidence that could lead to an investigation into the suspicious death of a man who was the third husband of a Georgia woman who has five dead husbands in five states, an agency spokesman said this week.