Big Pine Key News

Everyone loves a beautiful figure and no automobile comes closer to sleek and sexy than the Corvette.

All-American roadsters are roaring into town. As many as 300 Corvettes are motoring into Islamorada Friday through Sunday, Nov.

A golf cart flipped and seriously injured a 4-year-old girl at Disney's Fort Wilderness on Saturday.

A Key West Chinese food delivery man and a Big Pine Key woman were attacked by groups of young men in Key West this week in separate, but similar, incidents.

With a few changes - different light bulbs, an extra degree on the thermostat and fewer ceiling fans running - the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce is saving nearly $25 on its monthly electric bill.The Keys Energy audit that led to those changes was part of the chamber's green business certification, a new program offered by Keyswide environmental ...

Oct. 28--The Days Inn Oceanfront Resort in Islamorada and Big Pine Fishing Lodge on Big Pine Key are the latest hotels to participate in the South Florida Water Management District's Water CHAMP program.

Editor's note: This story is the first in a series of three articles about the just opened stone crab season.

A tripped breaker in Marathon probably due to weather spurred a power outage at 6:30 p.m. from Big Pine Key to Key West, Keys Energy Services spokesman Julio Barroso said.

The Florida Keys' Overseas Highway, from north of Key Largo to Key West, is now All-American.The designation was announced Friday by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and a plaque was presented by Victor Mendez, administrator of the Federal Highway Administration during a ceremony in Washington, D.C.The Keys highway -- U.S. 1 -- is the only ...

Some might say the most fearsome creatures in the Sunshine State are the human ones, but John Henry Fleming lets us off the hook in his whimsical bestiary Fearsome Creatures of Florida .

Two 23-year-old Bay Point men are facing a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after conspiring to poach more than $150,000 worth of lobster last year.

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 latest arrest warrant for former Monroe County School District administrator Monique Acevedo paints a picture of an entire family complicit in her alleged crimes.For the third time since April, Acevedo was jailed on Thursday, charged with grand theft of $100,000 or more, and fraud for illegally obtaining property worth $50,000 or more.

Following a decision to suspend the search for Dorel Zafiu Tuesday, search-and-rescue coordinators at Coast Guard Sector Key West received confirmation from Zafiu stating he was never in distress and just returned from a week near Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas.

Coast Guard crews are searching for a boater who failed to return from his fishing trip early last week.

Any park or refuge is a good place for birding, and we have plenty of both to choose from in the Keys.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has said it will not require vehicles to have automatic reversing windows.

MapSpace! Wet Weekend for Some Southeasterners as Storm Approaches Most of the Southeast has been spared from wet weekend weather, but drenching showers and thunderstorms will continue to drench those on the Gulf Coast today.

A former state wildlife officer blames his own ``incredibly stupid actions'' for his seven-year prison sentence on drug-smuggling charges.

Four new cases of boat-related thefts have been reported to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.