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Under pressure from the state, the Monroe County school district is coming up with a plan for all students to return to full-time on-campus learning by the end of the month.

Contributions to a new granting fund established at the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $25,000, to support nonprofits for community needs and to

Favorable inventories and interest rates helped inoculate the Florida Keys real estate market from the economic impacts of COVID-19 in 2020, one of the best years for sales in recent

BIG PINE KEY — The College of the Florida Keys President Jonathan Gueverra has faced significant challenges since taking the reins at the college nearly a decade ago, but none like what he has faced in the past year with the COVID-19 pandemic. But Gueverra and college staff have risen to the occasion. The pandemic has not only given the college’s nursing students real-life experience, but the college has played an important role in battling the virus locally. On Sunday, Feb. 7, more t...

The United Kingdom-based biotech company Oxitec will soon announce the test locations and timetable for releasing its genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. The test involves releasing lab-reared Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a species of mosquito commonly found in the Keys that can carry dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya. There could be small specific release sites that will be spread throughout the Keys, Oxitec spokeswoman Meredith Fensom said. Not one small defined area of neighbo...

The College of the Florida Keys has partnered with Florida Department of Health in Monroe County for the college in Key West to be a mass COVID-19 vaccination site, with shots being administered there on Sunday. The 400 vaccinations on Sunday are by appointment only, and the college is working off the Health Department’s application list. The college will be calling people to confirm they are on the list, according to CFK spokeswoman Amber Ernst-Leonard. Doctors and medical staff and peopl...

It’s often said what goes around comes around, and it is life-affirming when no good deed goes unnoticed.

ISLAMORADA — Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction, and that’s the case with Toilet Seat Cut off the bayside of Plantation Key. The channel — without the famous toilet seats which now number about 250 —existed prior to Hurricane Donna. Donna battered the Florida Keys on Sept. 9, 1960, with wind speeds up to 200 miles per hour and a storm surge of up to 13 feet before it turned back to the Atlantic Ocean and wreaked havoc along the east coast all the way to Maine. Donna w...

A doctor who failed to report an unlicensed caregiver operating two unlicensed assisted living facilities in the Upper Keys, where authorities say residents lived in abhorrent conditions, has been fined

Families have begun moving into their new homes with full certification of occupancy on the near horizon. “What an incredible way for these families to start the new year, in a new home,” said Lindsay Fast, executive director of the Upper Keys chapter. “There are so many people who contributed to this project. We could not have done it without the support of local government, our donors and partners. A most heartfelt thank you to each and every one of them.” The list of part...