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Images from the US Coast Guard show a small plane on its back and partially submerged Friday afternoon off Vaca Key.

View the Key West Citizen for Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The biotech company Oxitec will launch the latest phase of its genetically modified mosquito pilot project Thursday, July 7, which will examine single-point releases of Oxitec’s male mosquitoes.

The U.S. Coast Guard said one of its Cutters repatriated dozens of Cubans to Cuba on Tuesday, part of a growing trend of migration from Cuba to the U.S.

The state of Florida has given the green light to Oxitec, a U-K biotechnology company, to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Monroe County.

A local commercial fishing captain has been charged with several felony fleeing and eluding charges after speeding away from a Florida Keys marina late last month.

View the Key West Citizen for Friday, June 11, 2021

The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District is refusing to release the locations in the Keys where the private biotech company Oxitec is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes, which are part of

A Florida Keys resident has filed a lawsuit against the local Mosquito Control District for failure to produce public records disclosing the exact locations of genetically modified mosquitoes currently being

Why Florida is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes  Scientists from Oxford-based Oxitec are releasing GM insects in the US for first time in a bid to end diseases like dengue, Zika and malaria 9 May 2021 • 6:00am The thousands of lab-grown mosquitoes hatching in humid gardens across Florida’s tropical Key West next week will be blissfully ignorant of the controversy they have caused. Billboards have already begun appearing near busy motorways in protest of their arrival, with one spl...