Miami Herald
Miami swimmer powers
Two years ago, Vianney De Los Angeles — a Miami swimmer, triathlete and weightlifter — felt a lump in her breast after a workout. She assumed she had pulled a muscle. That’s what competitive athletes do. Rationalize. Bargain. Train it out. But a...
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‘POWERLESS AND ANGRY’
In Los Guayos, near the Venezuelan city of Valencia, worsening power cuts leave María Añez and her family with little respite. The heat is sweltering, mosquitoes buzz around the apartment and routine tasks are a constant struggle. But it is her...
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‘It’s fun to see the energy’
As the sun crept over the horizon and the trucks thundered past on Krome Avenue, the line and the anticipation grew quietly at Knaus Berry Farm. A few hardy souls arrived the night before. Others, unwilling to spend the night on concrete instead of a...
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Nicaragua’s Exiles, Trapped in Limbo
Geraldine Jarquín hopped onto a Zoom meeting on June 8, 2021, the night her life changed forever. A local politician and member of a conservative political party that opposes Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government, Jarquín said she faced...
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DOLPHINS FALL AT HOME, NOW 0-5
Fans from Montana put on a good face and Dolphins flags flew during the Miami-Cincinnati game Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium, but the ending was a familiar one: The Bengals capitalized on Miami mistakes to build a big lead and denied the Dolphins their...
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Trump wants to add official presidential retreat to his South Florida golf club
For generations, presidents have come to South Florida to escape Washington without leaving the presidency behind. Now, President Donald Trump wants to make that tradition official. Trump on Wednesday publicly embraced a proposal to create a Camp...
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MARKING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER 7 ATTACKS ON ISRAEL
Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach marked the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel on Wednesday with a Day of Remembrance. The event included survivor testimony, Holocaust survivor reflections and new immersive exhibits. Above, Patricia...
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Students drive in circles for campus parking. What are UM and FIU doing about it?
College students have a lot to focus on. Passing classes, taking exams, paying the bills. And parking. The lots at UM and FIU fill up fast with student commuters. And that means lots of circling the campus looking for a spot. About 93% of students at...
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FLORIDA SCHOOLS ARE AT A TIPPING POINT
Three decades of Republican rule in Florida have brought the state’s education system to the precipice of a new era — one in which privately run institutions play an unprecedented role in teaching the next generation. Exactly 30 years after the first...
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U.S. air strikes keep blowing up cocaine-laden boats, but the drugs keep flowing
First, you hear the highpitched whine of drones overhead. Next comes the boom of explosions. “And then in the following days, the sea brings in a jerrycan, pieces of a boat, drugs, people too,” says Alberto, a local businessman living in the remote...
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MIAMI LEADERS CELEBRATE NEW ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL’ CMU CAMPUS
State and local leaders descended on Wynwood Thursday to celebrate a Carnegie Mellon University campus and the multibillion-dollar donation from Miami hedge fund executive and philanthropist Ken Griffin, speaking above, that made it possible....
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GRIFFIN DONATES $2B TO CARNEGIE MELLON MIAMI CAMPUS
Carnegie Mellon University is coming to Miami with the launch of a new campus in Wynwood, backed by billions in support from hedge fund executive and philanthropist Ken Griffin, the deal’s principals told the Miami Herald in an exclusive...
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Developer pitches 70-story tower on the steps of Miami’s abandoned 1928 courthouse
After a real estate auction failed to draw any bidders for Miami-Dade’s historic courthouse, a developer says he can preserve the building by constructing a sleek 70-story apartment tower so close to the original structure it will stand atop the...
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Like ‘the wand shop in Harry Potter’ — only it’s in Miami and full of violins
It’s a bit like going through the secret portal in the back of the wardrobe to the magical land of Narnia. In the tiny village of El Portal just north of the Miami city line, in the lush and tree-shadowed Sherwood Forest section on a bend in the...
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DRESSING THE PART FOR HOME OPENER
Dolphins fans try to maintain their enthusiasm in the fourth quarter of Miami’s 24-10 loss to Kansas City in their home opener at Hard Rock Stadium. Miami hung with the Chiefs for most of the game but fell to 0-3 on the season. Coverage, 13A and miami...
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Airport suspect was shooting toward the terminal, Miami-Dade deputies say
The man arrested at Miami International Airport after chaotic reports of an active shooter Wednesday afternoon was firing toward the crowded terminal before he was detained by deputies, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest...
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VICE CITY RISES IN MIAMI
The fictional home of Grand Theft Auto came to real-life Miami on Tuesday as workers assembled a “Welcome to Vice City” message on the waterfront roof of Kaseya Center, giving the video game prime visibility from the air at the home of the Miami...
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GMOs, drones and radiation
Life in Florida was unbearable before the widespread adoption of two life-changing pieces of technology: air conditioning and mosquito control. And while screen doors and a healthy (or, in hindsight, not-so-healthy) dose of DDT might have done the...
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Coral Gables balks as Underline asks cities to ramp up funding
As the Underline park and trail under the Metrorail tracks nears completion of its final piece, a three-mile stretch through Coral Gables, it’s hitting an unexpected bump. Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and other city leaders are sharply questioning a...
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CARS, MURALS, LAYOFFS
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in the main corridor in Hialeah could soon look very different. Hialeah plans to spend $8 million to transform the longtime cultural facility into a combined history museum and library, but the city has yet to...
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Immigrants endure thunderstorms, hourslong lines at Miami immigration court
Mayerling Alvarado came prepared. She packed food and water, shielded herself from the scorching sun with a big blue umbrella, and took in the water views from her foldable chair. But this was not a recreational outing. Alvarado had set herself up...
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A $30 million pedestrian bridge in South Beach has been canceled What happened?
A much-ballyhooed pedestrian bridge promised at the entrance to Miami Beach by the developer of the city’s tallest condominium tower has fallen through — and city leaders want to know whether it truly can’t be built as designed. The candy-colored,...
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Miami school tax is up for a vote. A broad, unlikely coalition supports it
In Miami-Dade, it’s rare to find an issue where the teachers union, charter school operators, elected officials, the superintendent of public schools, the police union and the state’s leading parent-teacher association are aligned. But on Tuesday they...
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BRICKELL CONSTRUCTION RIG FALLS
Rescue workers tend to injured workers and motorists in the rubble of a construction rig’s collapse Monday at the Brickell site of Citadel’s new headquarters.
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SOUTH FLORIDA’S RAREST LUXURY
South Florida is a showcase for waterfront wealth, where newly arrived billionaires are snapping up trophy estates along the coast. But the rarest properties, according to some South Florida real estate brokers, offer waterfront on both sides of a...
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9/11 25 YEARS LATER
On Sept. 11, 2001, a series of terror attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania carved scars across our nation that continue to heal. To mark the anniversary, we pause to reflect on the tragedy of that day and the triumphs that rose from...
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Serving fresh Challah with a side of friendship
At Friendship Bakery in Kendall, bakers are hard at work rolling and braiding challah dough a week before Rosh Hashanah. Standing nearby is a kosher supervisor called a mashgiach whose job is to ensure the kitchen abides by Jewish dietary rules. The...
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Sheriff identifies the five victims killed on the ground in MIA cargo plane crash
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday identified the five people who died when an Amazon cargo plane crashed through a runway at Miami International Airport two days earlier. The jet operated by 21 Air overshot a runway at MIA and crashed into a...
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‘UPZONING ON STEROIDS’
Miami city officials are pushing a zoning change in Little Havana that would rezone about 460 properties that make up 100 acres in a move they say will benefit everyday Miamians by increasing the housing supply to bring down costs. But some residents...
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Virginia Key is getting targeted for redevelopment.
On a recent weekday morning, the waters behind Miami’s historic Marine Stadium were calm and clear — with few boats to be seen. If the city of Miami gets its way, the 45-acre basin could one day be filled with 195 concrete anchors, which would...
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E-BIKE INJURIES IN SOUTH FLORIDA ARE ON THE RISE —
Cody Scott escapes the big city by riding his e-bike in the Everglades. Or sometimes, he’ll “just cruise around” downtown Miami. The 34-year-old even uses it to commute to and from work “if traffic’s super bad.” But about a month ago, Scott was hurt...
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South Florida’s lizard problem keeps growing.
Central American brown basilisks are among the members of a lizard community that converged on a lower temperature tolerance after a cold snap in Miami. South Florida is literally crawling with lizards. They’re skittering through parks and yards,...
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MIAMI-DADE WANTS TO RAISE THOUSANDS OF HOMES, OFFICES ABOVE FLOOD LEVEL
The federal government says it will cost $4.5 billion to elevate and floodproof more than 3,000 homes and buildings in MiamiDade, part of a massive plan to help protect the region from the stronger hurricanes and higher sea levels of the future. A...
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‘Slow death’
As Cuba’s hot summer nears its end with no sign of regime change on the communist-run island, Cubans continue to suffer miserable living conditions amid a disturbingly worsening humanitarian crisis. Several years into a deep recession, the...
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10-year-old Miami Dade College student became the world’s youngest professor at 18
Nathan Thomas remembers his first day of college as being a normal day. When the 10-year-old walked into his algebra class at Miami Dade College, he drew a few curious looks from his older classmates. But once class began, Thomas quickly settled in —...
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DeSantis administration spending $2 million to put up bronze American statues
First came the bronze-cast statue of George Washington. Then came Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and 11 other American icons, their homes ranging from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle. Coming soon? A joint sculpture of baseball icons Lou Gehrig and...
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Dolly Parton, superstar whose songs spoke to millions, dies at 80
Dolly Parton, the rhinestones-to-riches daughter of Appalachia who for six decades ruled country music with an outsize personality and prairie wit that enshrined her as one of the 20th century’s most cherished American originals, died Tuesday in...
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Inside the ‘Schools of Hope’ charter that moved into a closed public elementary
The 6-year-olds shot out of their seats, silently pushed their chairs under their desks, lined up single file and headed to their spots on the classroom’s play mat. Moments after, Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” marked the beginning of “positive greeting”...
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GROVE PLAYHOUSE HISTORY GOES DIGITAL
The very first day it opened in 1956 as a live theater, the Coconut Grove Playhouse made U.S. cultural history — even if the inaugural production wasn’t exactly a hit with the Miami crowd. The American premiere of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s...
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A Kendall neighborhood builds opposition
Residents of a quiet East Kendall enclave of estate homes started getting a series of disconcerting surprises in the mail during the past several months: notices from Miami-Dade County that developers had filed plans to build apartment buildings in the...
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Oliver Gilbert wins primary to fill Frederica Wilson’s South Florida seat
In a crowded Democratic race, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Oliver Gilbert got one step closer to succeeding longtime Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, edging out Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones and late Congresswoman Carrie Meek’s grandson, Kendrick...
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A 21-year-old was killed in a Miami nightclub in 2009. Family says cops know who did it
For years, the photo of Raudel Sanchez displayed on a white table in his parents’ living room had been tucked away in hiding. Raudel’s mother, Vivian Texidor, couldn’t bring herself to show the photo of her son with his stern expression. “I couldn’t...
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The Underline’s newest section opens, with kids’ play forest from Nikki Spoelstra
New sections of The Underline are popping out regularly like hot bread from the oven as work on the last remaining unfinished pieces of the 10-mile linear park and trail enters the final stretch. On Saturday, Friends of the Underline and Miami-Dade...
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One of the last green spaces in Brickell could disappear, so what’s planned in its place?
Allen Morris Brickell Park is a leafy oasis on a fraction of a city block. The quarter-acre park is one of the few green spaces remaining in the bustling heart of Miami’s financial district. Over the years, the park’s canopy of palm, banyan and black...
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Start of new school year in Miami-Dade brings
Thursday marked a new school year for Miami-Dade public-school students, but for some, it also meant stepping into a school unlike any they had known before. At Miami Springs Preparatory Academy 6-12, a new crop of middle-school students has to...
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Staging Miami
A sprawling, newly built mansion on a leafy residential street in Pinecrest had been on the market for several months. The home, listed at around $16 million and built by local developer Fouad Kraishan, has massive windows, soaring ceilings and an...
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DEATH TOLL HITS 181 IN COLOMBIA
At least 181 people have been confirmed dead in Colombia’s main cities after a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake devastated parts of the country as rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors beneath collapsed buildings and authorities struggled to...
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‘WE’RE STARTING WELL THIS YEAR’: SCHOOL’S BACK IN BROWARD
Above, crossing guard Latisha Johnson helps first-grader Luana Gabilanes, with her parents Gabriela, right, and Manuel as they cross the street to drop her off for her first day of school on Monday, outside Tropical Elementary in Plantation. Right, the...
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Miami luxury hotels have found their newest VIP —
Check into The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach and you may be greeted by two resident golden retrievers. The message: Dogs feel seen here. The latest competition in luxury hospitality is no longer just penthouse suites, inhouse Michelin-starred restaurants...
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At this beloved Coral Gables icon, the café is becoming as popular as the books
Summer can be (and has been) a difficult time for restaurants in Miami. With tourists who fled in the spring, ongoing economic uncertainty and the cost of literally everything rising, business can slow to a painful trickle, with the season feeling...
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Broward schools may soon have a new weapon against school shooters: drones
The drones zip through school hallways, buzzing loudly like a swarm of bees. They can shoot puffs of pepper spray, flash dizzying lights and hurl themselves at 60 miles per hour at their target: a school shooter. These non-lethal drones are designed...
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Cuban-born Alfonso Fanjul, who built a sugar empire in Florida, dies in Palm Beach
Alfonso “Alfy” Fanjul Jr., the Cuban-born billionaire who fled Fidel Castro’s revolution, rebuilt his family’s sugar fortune in Florida and helped transform Florida Crystals into one of the nation’s most powerful agribusiness empires, died Monday in...
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Where to dock the superyachts? South Florida developers race to build more boat slips
South Florida’s waterfront development boom is no longer just about luxury condominiums, sprawling waterfront estates and billionaire compounds. Developers, investors and local governments are spending hundreds of millions of dollars expanding marinas...
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UM students are going to get luxury off-campus tower — with a rooftop pool
University of Miami students are bypassing traditional off-campus housing in favor of a new generation of luxury apartments built specifically for college life. The latest entry is SOMI Walk, a 16-story, 173apartment, 673-bed student housing tower...
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Climate change has given this tropical fruit a warm
Marc Ellenby has grown just about every tropical fruit imaginable on his family’s Redland farm since 1980. Avocados. Sapodillas. Longans. Mameys. But there was one tropical fruit he didn’t think could survive here: Breadfruit. Century-old reports from...
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WELCOME TO A NEW SEASON, DOLFANS
The Miami Dolphins held their first day of training camp on Wednesday at Baptist Health Training Complex in Miami Gardens, and it looked a little different than it has in previous years. Above, the defensive lineman and edges practice.
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Medicare patients on alert as deadline nears for UHealth and United
Charlotte Libov, a medical writer in Miami Beach, has always encouraged cancer patients to undergo treatment, if they can, at federally designated comprehensive cancer centers whose doctors are leaders in research and clinical trials and usually offer...
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‘When I had no one, I had them’
At 19, Danitra Grays was grappling with postpartum depression, caring for her newborn daughter, Naiyla, and struggling with anxious thoughts that weighed heavily on her mind. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Natural disasters. Whether her baby was eating...
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CORAL CRISIS
As underwater temperatures continue to soar in South Florida, the coral shuffle has begun. Scientists are eyeing any corals that aren’t tied down and making plans to move them somewhere safe: to deeper waters, to a shaded spot or even to land-based...
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Miami Beach’s plan to revive Washington Avenue:
It’s been a long while since Washington Avenue was a glamorous hotbed of South Beach dining, clubbing and live music. But city efforts to restore its lost vim and vigor have fallen flat. Today, some bright spots aside, the Art Deco District’s historic...
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Miami's Newest Hurricane Protection? INSTA-REEFS
When hurricanes come ashore in Miami, their waves take big bites out of the coastline, chewing up sand and waterfront properties alike. A chunk of concrete sunk off Miami Beach could change that. The University of Miami recently installed the second...
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With $1.6 million in donations, this Fort Lauderdale church is going green — for God
The canal that flows between Fort Lauderdale resident Harry Rozelle’s house and his church is so infested with bacteria that his teenage son, Cruz, was hospitalized after swimming in it three years ago. As he tended to his sick son, who had contracted...
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WHEN IS SUNSET PLACE GETTING DEMOLISHED?
Sunset Place is still there. By now, the zombie South Miami mall that once defined suburban entertainment was supposed to be gone, razed to make way for a dense megadevelopment. The developers, who said in 2025 that they hoped to start demolition in...
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FANS TURN OUT FOR WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY
Top, FIFA fans, a large majority of them supporting Argentina, watch the World Cup final at the Miami Beach bandshell on Sunday. Right, a Spain fan, one of the few at the watch party, raises a flag and cheers. For full coverage of the match, go to
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Underline’s Dadeland to South Miami segment is now open, with these new features
The latest piece of the Underline to open to the public is the end of the trail, even though the project’s not quite done yet. The 1.2-mile stretch, now finished and ready for exploration on foot, by bike or by e-means of transportation, is the...
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CAN AI SMART CARTS MAKE SHOPPING EASIER?
Excuse me, where is the sugar? Some shoppers need GPS to find their way around the neighborhood supermarket. Last week, soup was in Aisle 3. Now, it’s not. And try finding the aspirin to help you deal with your shopping headache. Miami-based Milam’s...
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Inside the makeover of an iconic Miami Beach hotel
On a sweltering summer day in Miami Beach, relief awaits beyond the sidewalk on Collins near 17th. From a nearby bus stop, a wide patio with tables and chairs comes into view. A short and wide staircase gives easy access to a place that once hosted...
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ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ IS NO MORE
The bright blue sign reading “Alligator Alcatraz” outside the silver chain-link gate at DadeCollier Training and Transition Airport has been removed. The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents, is now cleared, with only a few...
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UM TRYING TO CURB BOTCHED INJECTABLES Beauty project seeks more training, safeguards
Miami’s the place to be for Botox, BBLs, laser hair removal and other aesthetic procedures. But does the nurse sticking you with a needle actually know what he or she is doing? The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies wants to...
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As rising seas invade the Everglades, spoonbills are finding new homes
Deep in the Everglades, through the knee-high mud and up, up, up in the trees, tucked into nests made of twigs, are the squawking, flapping and distinctly pink offspring of one of Florida’s most iconic birds: the roseate spoonbill. “You see a bunch of...
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MORE HEAT ADVISORIES AS DUST MOVES IN
Construction worker Juan Araujo hydrates on Wednesday while working in Wynwood as a heat advisory was in effect for most of South Florida. The heat index has hit 105 the past two days, with little or no rain to cool us off. And a plume of Saharan dust...
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As gay bars in Miami disappear,
Willy’s, the only LGBTQ+ bar in Wynwood, achieved a daunting feat in South Florida. Its owners opened a small business in one of Miami’s hottest neighborhoods, built a crowd of regulars, hosted drag shows, DJ sets and watch parties, and even threw a...
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Living aboard is a way of life in Miami-Dade
Christopher Chandler wasn’t born in a hospital — or even a house. Fifty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world in the small V-berth of their sailboat in the San Diego Bay. It even says so on his birth certificate. Ever since, the water has...
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‘WE RESCUED PEOPLE WITH OUR BARE HANDS’
Miami businesswoman Gisela Rojas was on vacation in Venezuela last month when the first tremors of two massive earthquakes hit the central and northern parts of the country. “The building was moving like a deck of cards,” says Rojas, a real estate...
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