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Florida Got $200 Million For EV Chargers. It Wants To Spend It On Air Taxis Instead

The state wants to spend federal EV charger money on eVTOLs, which don’t even have FAA approvals yet.

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Rare Southern Snow Blankets Florida, Georgia and Alabama for Second Straight Year

Florida Panhandle and parts of Georgia, Alabama receive rare snowfall for second consecutive year as winter storm sweeps across Southeast.

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Florida used black paint to cover its colorful crosswalks. It cost one county $31,000 and is already fading away

Black paint was applied to colorful crosswalks across Florida over the summer to meet state rules requiring crosswalk updates to avoid losing state funding

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Florida crosswalk wars take DeSantis’s ‘war on woke’ to street level

Cities fight back as purge of street art broadens from Pulse nightclub memorial to bike lane designed by fourth-graders

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Florida DOT Implements Emergency Shoulder Use For Hurricane Evacuations

FDOT activates Emergency Shoulder Use plans on select highways to aid Hurricane Milton evacuation process in Florida.

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Florida Has A Huge EV Market. It's Paying For Other States' Chargers Instead

Gov. Ron DeSantis once aimed to “strengthen” Florida’s EV infrastructure. Now it's denying federal charging funds and the money is going elsewhere.

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How Florida Cut Red Tape To Fast-Track Hurricane Repairs

Bureaucracy usually mires construction projects in delays. Florida is trying to buck that norm.

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‘The first eyes to see this’: Florida workers find 19th-century shipwreck

Construction crews dig up wooden remains of ship probably used to extract fish and shellfish in downtown St Augustine

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5 years after fatal FIU bridge collapse, a cautious new design is almost ready

MIAMI — Five years after the catastrophic collapse of a pedestrian bridge with a novel design meant to punctuate Florida International University’s ascendancy as a public institution, state engineers are finally ready to give it another go.

Miami Herald

State official inheriting Florida migrant relocation program has questions about vendor

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The head of the state agency now tasked with handling Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant relocation program told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he was not sure whether he will continue the state’s arrangement with Vertol Systems Company, the politically-connected aviation company paid to transport migrants from…

Miami Herald

In tweaking Florida’s secretive migrant flights program, lawmakers ask little, reveal less

MIAMI — Florida lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a measure that would not only expand Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ability to relocate migrants anywhere in the country but would allow his administration to hand out millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies to carry out the secretive program without disclosing…

Miami Herald

Emails show use of private emails, encryption app in discussing Florida’s migrant relocations

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Newly released records from Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that his public safety czar, Larry Keefe, communicated with a Destin-based contractor hired to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts using a private email account with the call name “Clarice Starling.”

Orlando Sentinel

A new Seven Mile Bridge is in the works for the Florida Keys. What the state has planned

MIAMI — The Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys was considered an engineering marvel when it opened in 1982.

Miami Herald

Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights. Where did $3.4 million go?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The price tag is rising for Florida’s opaque program to relocate migrants from Texas to Democrat-leaning states.

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Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The price tag is rising for Florida’s opaque program to relocate migrants from Texas to Democrat-leaning states.

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Florida Rushing To Repair Pulverized Roads That Left Families Stranded After Nicole

Another hurricane and destruction to the Florida coastline, state Department of Transportation crews once repairing again

Miami Herald

Before DeSantis could say he kicked migrants out of Florida, he had to pay to fly them in

MIAMI — Documents released this week by the aviation company that helped manage Florida’s $12 million migrant relocation program shed new light on behind-the-scenes dealings as the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, working with the politically connected vendor, wriggled around a requirement that Florida use the money to export Florida…

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Salvaging What Is Left, Communities Come Together In The Wake Of Hurricane Ian

The deadliest tropical system to make landfall in more than 87 years, left a trail of destruction behind in southwest Florida.

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Florida may have violated its own guidelines in flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

MIAMI — The state agency charged with managing the controversial migrant relocation program said its mission was “to relocate out of the State of Florida foreign nationals who are not lawfully present in the United States,’’ according to documents obtained Friday by the Herald/Times.

Miami Herald

Pine Island bridge temporarily repaired after Hurricane Ian. First responders, Publix truck cross it

MIAMI — Hours before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that emergency road and bridge repairs to Pine Island had been completed ahead of schedule Wednesday, cheers and a little laughter greeted some of the first motorists to cross a temporary bridge built to restore access by land to the island,…

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Feds awarding $25 million safety grant for Florida's Brightline corridor

In a major initiative to cut down on deaths and injuries along Brightline’s rail corridor, the U.S. Government has allocated $25 million for safety improvements between Miami-Dade and Brevard counties, railroad and government officials announced Monday.

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What really happened with Miami’s F1 track surface

While Formula 1 drivers generally liked the layout of the new Miami Formula 1 circuit - apart from the chicane - it was the track surface that became the biggest bone of contention over the weekend.

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