Key West News

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 .

The Coast Guard Run to Remember 2013 is part of the Keys 100, a 100-mile ultra-marathon that begins in Key Largo and ends in Key West today.

A woman was airlifted about 3:50 p.m. Friday from U.S. 1 after suffering head injuries in a personal watercraft crash near the Toms Harbor Cut Bridge at Duck Key.

"I love Key West. Nothing is ever going to change that -- not the rain, not the heat, not the chickens, not the traffic, not the street closures, not the tourists, not the homeless, not the drunks, not the Bubbas.

Exactly 100 years after making the first successful flight between Key West and Havana, Cuba, aviation pioneer Domingo Rosillo del Toro is being honored.

The fuel was running perilously low, and the lubricating oil was nearly exhausted, but pioneering pilot Domingo Rosillo del Toro could see land ahead.

With costs of making a trip to pull traps often higher than the value of claws harvested, many Monroe County stone-crabbers gave up on the poor season months ago.

A full-circle rainbow surrounds the sun above Key West, Florida. Taken from the beach of the Casa Marina Resort.

On the island of Key West, Fla., the tourists-in every shade of sunburn-line up to visit the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum.

Investigators say that during her term as the elected Monroe County auditor, Amy Gerstman made at least $11,101 in personal purchases on her county-issued Visa credit card.

Local "wellness coach" Susan Knowles this week is launching the Big Pine Key Area Weight Loss Challenge, inspired by TV's "The Biggest Loser." The 12-week, $35 course offers tips on nutrition and exercise, along with the flair of competition.

A few years ago Army Sgt. Maj. Roberto Oquendo got a call in his office during some down time at the Special Forces Underwater Operations School on the northern edge of Fleming Key.

Former District 1 Monroe County School Board member Steve Pribramsky, an accountant and auditor by trade, hopes to start a review of the financial and construction records related to the three-year, $40 million rebuild of Horace O'Bryant Middle School in Key West.Superintendent Mark Porter executed an agreement with Pribramsky on Thursday afternoon ... (more)

During Harry S. TrumanA''s 1945-53 presidency, he spent 175 days at the Key West residence known worldwide as his Little White House.

Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West, Fla.

Three weeks after yanking the application to demolish the rooftop bar at La Concha Hotel and replace it with a spa, a local architect refiled the plans with the city of Key West.

By a vote of 11-1 a Key West jury on Friday recommended to Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones that Jonathan Leo LeBaron should face the death penalty.

A Cuban agent who served 13 years behind bars in the United States for his role in an espionage ring showed off a certificate renouncing his U.S. citizenship on Friday and said he was now just a "Cuban patriot." For Rene Gonzalez, who was born in Chicago but grew up in Cuba and held dual U.S.-Cuban citizenship, the certificate meant he was the ... (more)