Miami-Dade Suspends Entire Metromover Over Power Difficulties

Miami-Dade Transit stopped every Metromover train Thursday after power-related technical difficulties took the automated system out of service across the network. Technicians were already working to bring the cars back, the agency said, and it apologized for the inconvenience. The alert did not name the fault or give riders a restart time.

Recount looms in Miami U.S. House race; Salazar likely winner

Just after the last voters left a school gym in Coral Gables, a poll worker stacked unused ballots and listened to a radio host already calling the night. The numbers on the county website refused to cooperate with that confidence. In the race for a United States House seat based in Miami, the margin sat inside the range that Florida law treats as too narrow for a casual victory lap. That is why a Miami House recount has moved from rumor to a likely next step, even as party lawyers and county staff still speak of María Elvira Salazar as the probable winner over Eliott Rodriguez.

Miami Beach Blocks 38-Story Live Local Towers on West Avenue

Miami Beach just drew a line on how far Florida’s Live Local Act can reach into its residential neighborhoods. On Friday, October 30, the city’s planning director told the owner of Southgate Towers at 910 West Avenue in South Beach that a proposed redevelopment does not qualify for the state law’s fast-track approvals, as reported by The Real Deal.

Baptist Health to Shutter Alton Road Clinic in Miami Beach by Spring 2027

Baptist Health South Florida plans to close its urgent care and physician practices at 709 Alton Road in Miami Beach by spring 2027, ending nearly a decade of service at the Alton Road medical complex. The leased location has offered urgent care, primary care, diagnostic imaging and physical therapy to South Beach residents since it opened. Baptist Health is now notifying affected patients about the closure and the alternative care options available to them.

New townhomes are coming to Little Haiti - but owners won't own the land

City and county leaders broke ground on a new townhouse development in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood aimed at giving working-class buyers an affordable path to homeownership. Place Louverture will have 13 townhomes on a corner lot along Northeast 67th Street. The development marks the first Miami-Dade County project for the South Florida Community Land Trust, a Broward-based nonprofit that helps first-time homebuyers and families displaced by South Florida’s soaring housing costs. Under the community land trust model, buyers purchase the home i at a reduced price while the nonprofit retains permanent ownership of the underlying land. The groundbreaking comes as soaring property taxes and living expenses weigh heavy on longtime residents in the historically working-class neighborhood. Sampson Lisca, who bought his Little Haiti home 20 years ago, said escalating expenses are making it increasingly difficult to hold onto his property. “I just paid $5,200 for taxes,” Lisca said. Miami City Commissioner Christine King, who represents the district, said local leaders must make sure that people are not priced out of their neighborhood. “We have to look out for everybody,” King said. While developers say families who qualify for Place Louverture townhomes will be able to pass the properties down for

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Miami Approves New Housing Overhaul That Protects Overtown’s Original Residents

Miami-Dade backs Culmer Place V to replace 107 public housing units and add 375 mixed-income apartments with return rights.

Thanksgiving turkey giveaway events begin in South Florida. Here is a list:

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Instead of issuing a traffic ticket, police officers were giving drivers who committed minor infractions a warning and a free turkey on Wednesday in Miami Gardens. Chief Delma Noel-Pratt has turned the event into an annual tradition that shocked some drivers. Last year, police officers...

A Car-Dependent Florida Community Voted to Make Multimodal Infrastructure Its Default

A winning Florida ballot measure could provide a model for car-dependent communities to make multimodal infrastructure their default, after demonstrating how popular it actually is when people get the chance to vote on it directly. The Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay voted to approve a new charter amendment this midterms,...

Mineo Salcedo Law Firm Adds Consumer Debt Defense to Help Floridians Respond to Collection Lawsuits

The Mineo Salcedo Law Firm in Davie, FL, now offers consumer debt defense for Floridians sued over credit cards, personal loans and other debts. The firm warns that many of these cases end in default judgments because the person sued doesn’t respond in time. It also highlights Florida protections, including head-of-family wage exemptions, limits on collectors and time limits for suing on old debts.

Reasons for stripping Brickell church land from historic protection are ludicrous | Letters

Historic church In the Nov. 7 article, “ Luxury condos get all-clear for historic church site in Brickell. What’s next? ” Miami Herald reporter Isabel Rivera wrote, “At the Nov. 3 hearing, 13th Floor and the church argued that because the school’s annex and parking lot were added after 1950 — dubbed the ‘period of significance’ — it couldn’t share in the sanctuary’s landmark status. The church building was completed in 1949.” The developers’ statement is so ludicrous. It is like saying Antonio Gaudi’s monumental Sagrada Familia in Barcelona does not fit the “period of significance” because it took 100 years to finish Gaudi’s original drawings. Two experts, a highly credentialed local historian and a nationally recognized architect and preservationist, unequivocally showed that the church’s original plans, designed by renowned architect Lester Geisler, included the sanctuary, the school, the Celtic cross perched on its steeple and the land to the water. Yet, the Historic and Environmental Preservation Board decided to ignore the historical facts. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and designated a local landmark in 2003. Notably, under these two distinct designations, the three-acre site is included as a whole (not parceled

Plan to build linear park along Allapattah railroad tracks gets funding boost

A plan to turn an abandoned rail line into a linear park in Allapattah has received funding to seek community input and conduct a feasibility study. Why it matters: The idea is to connect longtime residents in Little Santo Domingo with the neighborhood's newer arts district amid long-standing concerns about gentrification. It comes after Miami leaders approved a Community Redevelopment Agency to boost development and investment in the neighborhood, according to reports. Driving the news: The Allapattah Collaborative CDC, the nonprofit leading the project, received $200,000 from the Knight Foundation to kick-start the planning. The ACDC, which advocates for economic progress that does not displace locals, is modeling the project after The Underline . Zoom in: The plan is to build a 2-mile linear park on the long-abandoned railroad tracks that cut through the neighborhood, ACDC CEO Mileyka Burgos-Flores tells Axios. The project would create a free gathering space for locals with pedestrian and bicycle access, arts space and local vendors. What they're saying: Burgos-Flores says there is a "very big disconnect" between the people moving to Allapattah and the longtime residents. "We want to deepen that sensibility," she said. "We are here, welcome to our community. We don't need

Stefan Pizzi Says the Consent Letter With His Name on It Was Forged, and That Is How the 50-Foot Oak on His Little Haiti Property Line Came Down

Little Haiti homeowner Stefan Pizzi says a consent letter in his name was forged to cut a 50-foot property-line oak. A judge dismissed his fraud count in July.

Born of the McDuffie riots, Miami-Dade’s Black-focused economic Trust faces rewrite as DEI ban nears

More than 40 years after Miami and Miami-Dade County launched an effort to expand economic opportunity for Black residents, County Commissioners are weighing whether to drop that goal from a county agency’s mandate. Commissioners are scheduled to hold a public hearing and take a final vote Tuesday, Nov. 17,...

There Goes The Neighbourhood – Miami Concert Review

The Neighbourhood kicked off its Miami concert Thursday night with lead singer Jesse Rutherford descending from the heavens like Jesus Christ, as thousands of young women screamed like banshees. Rutherford was covered in silver, wearing a skin-tight metallic shirt and matching pants, with red eyeshadow on one eye, blue on...

Miami-Dade District Seeks Microschools to Lease Empty Classroom Space

The Miami-Dade school district, one of the nation’s largest, is inviting independent microschools to lease empty classroom space — providing  a new revenue stream as public school enrollment drops sharply. The initiative, according to the district officials, is both a response to enrollment declines as well as a way to accommodate families who have a […]

Faena Residences Miami Breaks Ground On 68-Story Twin Towers Along Miami River

An official groundbreaking ceremony has been held for Faena Residences Miami, a pair of 68-story residential skyscrapers set to rise approximately 800 feet at 24 SW 4th Street along the Miami River in Downtown Miami. Designed by the late Rafael Viñoly and developed by Fortune International Group and KAR Properties in partnership with Faena, the development will yield 434 condominium residences and serve as the residential centerpiece of a planned 14-acre cultural district. Coastal Construction is serving as the general contractor.

Poll: Vote for the Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week for Week 12

This week, we continue the 2026-27 school year feature where we ask you to vote for a top high school varsity performer of the week (in Broward and Miami-Dade counties). Nominees this week are from high school cross-country, golf, and swimming. Take our poll below to cast your vote. The poll will be open until Thursday, November 19 til around 10 p.m. You can vote as often as you like until then. NOTE: You should see a Miami Herald box underneath this note for you to type Yes and click Submit. That will ignite the actual poll to vote. Here are the nominees: John Albornoz, Coral Springs Charter swimming : the senior won Region 4-2A titles in boys’ 200 IM (1:53.63) and 100 breast (57.76) and helped the winning 200 medley relay (1:37.13) as CSC placed fourth Jacob Castanedo, Braddock cross-country : the senior won the District 8-4A boys’ title at in 16:25.77 to lead the Bulldogs to the team championship. Kayaan Ghaffar, Gulliver Prep cross-country : the junior led the Raiders to the boys’ team title by winning the individual title in 17:04 at the District 8-2A Cross-Country Championships at Homestead Air Reserve Park. Sofia Jimenez, Lourdes cross-country :

Miami ranks second-worst in US for rental affordability as typical rent hits $2,653

A typical year's rent takes up over a third of the median household's income.

Opinion: The midterms sent a message. It’s time for South Florida to cut ties with ICE.

From the stories making headlines to the restaurants, music and culture that make Miami one of a kind, New Times is there. Help us raise $25,000 by December 31 to keep independent local journalism going strong in 2027. Earlier this year, I stood outside of the Lake Worth City Hall...