Miami Dade County News

The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is turning sweet sixteen, and to commemorate this special occasion, a record number of films will be screened for the enjoyment of all film lovers in South Florida.

The Florida House appears poised Friday to pass a massive health-care bill that would ensure three disputed trauma centers remain open and give long-sought powers to nurse practitioners.

Miami commissioners enthusiastically agreed Thursday to turn over sections of three downtown streets to the developers of the multi-block Miami Worldcenter project, brushing aside objections from critics who called the move a giveaway and raised concerns over its effects on traffic.

The number of businesses without paid employees in the U.S. reached 22.7 million in 2012, up 1.1 percent from 2011, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Nonemployer Statistics is an annual series that provides subnational economic data for businesses that have no paid employees and are subject to federal income tax.

For Miami Beach commuters, the past year has been a migraine-inducing hellscape.

Once a downtrodden and undervalued neighborhood, this pocket just north of downtown Miami is undergoing a quiet transformation.

Environmental advocates want a federal judge to reopen their case against Miami-Dade County and the U.S. government over repairs to a crumbling sewer system.

Miami's waterfront has a new art museum, with a science museum on the way. Does it have room for one dedicated to Cuban exiles, too? Advocates of what would be Miami's second museum devoted to Cuban immigrants are pushing county leaders to turn over county land behind the AmericanAirlines Arena to house the proposed 80-foot-tall complex, which ... (more)

The answer to all those questions is HistoryMiami. Officially known as the Historical Society of South Florida and located downtown immediately south of County Hall, HistoryMiami has been reborn.

DADE COUNTY. THIS IS THE LATEST ARREST FROM AN UNDERCOVER OPERATION BY THE ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION DUBBED "OPERATION NOBLENA."

The overall number of crimes in 2013 fell by 27,380 or 4.7 percent, to 698,607, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which has been keeping crime statistics since 1971.

These film permits were issued last week by the Miami-Dade County Mayor's Office of Film & Entertainment, 375-3288; the Miami Mayor's Office of Film, Arts & Entertainment, 860-3823; and the Miami Beach Office of Arts, Culture and Entertainment-Film and Print Division, 673-7070.

A South Florida judge has delayed the trial of pop star Justin Bieber on charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license until July.

The road had been closed due to a brushfire near the Miami-Dade County line that had been affecting traffic since Sunday.

Tigertail's Saturday presentation of the work of French choreographer Myriam Gourfink has changed due to the illness of ballerina Gwenaëlle Vauthier.

Bicyclists and cars ride past work being done on the west end of the Venetian Causeway on Monday, April 14, 2014.

A defense attorney who once represented Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife while they were under federal investigation in 2010 testified Tuesday that neither former client lied to authorities about the husband's involvement in his wife's loan businesses.

A South Florida man was convicted Tuesday of beating his newlywed wife to death so he could collect a $1 million life insurance policy.

Testing was suspended Tuesday in several districts across Florida after students were unable to take the state's standardized assessment because of a computer glitch.