Key West News

Naval Air Station Key West Cmdr. Pat Lefere likely won't be out of work for long when he retires next month.

The city Planning Department, at the request of the Duval Street Committee, will hold a special workshop to consider making portions of the main drag a pedestrian zone on certain days.

Despite losing, 8-7, Friday night to Fort Pierce Westwood in the Spring Classic, Key West Coach Johnny Hughes was relatively pleased with his team's performance with only 28 dressed to play.

Should the city of Key West kick out the Mosquito Control District from its College Road headquarters, services and staff will suffer on the 2-by-4 mile island, a 16-year veteran of its board said this week.

The night of April 25, Treasure Village Montessori School Financial Director Jodi Yeager gave the key to the school building, as well as the combination to its safe, to her longtime boyfriend Joseph Colgan.

It seems like a paradox for an airplane based in Florida, but my wife, Cathy, and I fly our Cheyenne less in the winter months than any other time of the year.

Thanks to the generosity of individuals and organizations throughout Monroe County, the United Way of the Florida Keys has just announced around $150,000 in annual grants to 13 local nonprofit programs.

We have been to Key West before and we have also taken the Key West Express passenger ferry before; it was my birthday and we thought it would be fun to go to Key West for lunch! It was fun but we both agreed that we should have made plans to stay over for a few days.

Cape Air has been named one of eight "Best Small Airlines in North America" by the Smarter Travel website .

The School District's new executive director of Operations and Planning will be Naval Air Station Key West's retiring commander Capt.

Gulfport City Council Member Christine Brown came prepared at Tuesday night's workshop.

Whether you're staying in a luxury spa or at a Victorian spread, the Conch Republic can be anything you imagine.

You aren't really going to spend your entire Key West vacation lounging around the guest houses and hotels , dining at the Island's many affordable restaurants and drinking its plentiful liquor, are you? It would be a crying shame to head all the way down to Florida's top and not work your way in and out of its tropical, exotic nooks.

Scheduled Saturday, June 29, the event is hosted by Murray Marine and offers prizes for the winning boat team and top five individual anglers.

Few subjects touch a nerve in Key West quite like cruise ships. The city is heavily debating whether to even study widening the main channel leading to the city's ports.

An Alaskan man living in Key West the past year has gone missing -- along with the 39-foot trimaran he was traveling on, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

The sister of the missing boater, 40-year-old Jay Wesley Rydberg, said he was supposed to return to the Keys on his sailboat from Fort Myers last week, but never arrived.

The city of Key West is eight weeks away from what is only the start of big changes when it comes to home recycling and trash pick-up. By mid-July, Utilities Manager Jay Gewin expects the arrival of 13,000 blue plastic 65-gallon wheeled carts, similar to the green garbage carts.

The congested halls of Glynn R. Archer Elementary School are even more crowded than usual these days, as boxes of classroom supplies pile up throughout its buildings - and mounds of debris pile up in Dumpsters around the property.

Cape Air has been named one of eight "Best Small Airlines in North America" by the Smarter Travel website .