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WLRN News has won four Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards including overall excellence, news documentary, investigative reporting and excellence in sound for 2020. The Murrow awards were created in 1971 and are named in honor of Edward R. Murrow, a pioneer who set the standard for the highest quality of broadcast journalism. The Radio Television Digital News Associations awards adhere to the RTDNA Code of Ethics. WLRN News was recognized as winners for Region 13 (Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico an...

Miami Herald Many Cuban-Americans are asking the Biden Administration to solve the problem of the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program. The program has been paused indefinitely since 2017. In this photo Cuban-Americans pass out prayer beads at the Ermita de la Caridad shrine in Miami, where they recently gathered to pray and call for a solution to their immigration problems. A popular program for reuniting Cuban families in the U.S. has been on pause since 2017. Now, many families are aski...

Miami Herald Cuban migrants sleeping in a small camp on the side of the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico on July 30, 2019. Cubans make up the largest number of asylum seekers stuck at the Mexican border. Cubans make up the largest group of migrants seeking asylum who are currently stuck at the Mexican border under a Trump Administration policy. As President Biden undoes the policies of his predecessor, many are soon expected to arrive in South Florida. Tens of thousands of migr...

MIAMI HERALD An official analysis concludes the bill would impact the right to free speech, but within acceptable boundaries. Opponents say it is severely overreaching. After a long, hot summer of protests against police violence — following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in September that he would try his hardest to prevent any kind of unrest, of the type seen in other parts of the country, from happening in Florida...

/ Tourists and residents gather on Ocean Drive in South Beach in 2017. City leaders are pushing a slate of new ordinances that they hope will fundamentally rebrand the city and discourage people from partying hard there. If there was a single moment when the official narrative started to shift for partying on Miami Beach, it was late one night in May 2011. That was when police fired 116 shots at Raymond Herisse, a 22-year-old Boynton Beach resident, who they said was driving drunk and hitting c...

WLRN The Poseidon Ferry is now running hourly trips between Miami and Miami Beach. Here, the ferry is at its slip on 5th Street and West Avenue in Miami Beach. The ferry is currently running an hourly service between Miami and Miami Beach, with the trips taking 20 minutes in both directions. For years, leaders in Miami-Dade County have mused about the creation of a ferry service that would sidestep gridlock traffic on the bridges and connect the cities of Miami and Miami Beach over the waterway...