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Florida Governor Signs Bill Overturning Key West Cruise Ship Restrictions Published 14 hours ago With the stroke of a pen, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has overturned Key West’s voter-approved limits on cruise ships. In November 2020, voters in the southern tip of Florida approved three ballot questions that would restrict the number of daily cruise ship visitors to 1,500, ban vessels carrying more than 1,300 passengers, and prioritize docking for cruise lines with the best health and environmental records. The referendum wasn’t close. Key West citizens voted 63 percent in favor of limi...

National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham will be the keynote presenter at the annual Hurricane Preparedness Workshop for the Florida Keys Tourism Industry set to begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27. Graham will focus on enhanced forecast products for the official 2021 Atlantic Basin hurricane season that begins June 1 and continues through Nov. 30. He’ll also concentrate on the season’s outlook and the importance of using trusted information sources in the three-hour virtual event. “The 2020 hurricane season was the most active on record, with 30 named storms including 14 hur...

Nonprofit Pulls Proposal to Build Affordable Housing May 3, 2021 A.H. of Monroe County, a social services organization based in Key West, Fla., has withdrawn a proposal to build an affordable housing development, according to Keys Weekly. Under the terms of the proposal, A.H. of Monroe would have constructed between 80 and 100 units within Key West’s Truman Waterfront. The proposal had received support from a majority of city commissioners. But members of the Bahama Village Redevelopment Advisory Committee, which advises the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, raised objections becaus...

This must’ve been one seriously good meal. A generous woman who ate breakfast at a Florida Keys restaurant Tuesday left a $10,000 tip on top of her $193 bill. Castaway Waterfront Restaurant & Sushi Bar in Marathon, Florida, shared a photo of the receipt with the eye-popping tip on its Facebook page, congratulating the staffers who are splitting the windfall. "Well deserved," the restaurant wrote. Khara Wilson, a server at the restaurant, told Keys Weekly that the woman came in with a big party on a busy morning. "I had a little time, so I chit chatted a little bit – where they were from, ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis denied that he had anything to do with providing COVID vaccines to a wealthy, gated Florida Keys community in January ahead of other state residents.