Florida Keys

Navigating the Florida Keys can be a challenge — one that Hurricane Irma made even more difficult.

FEMA says its new rates better reflect the risk from more intense and frequent rain and floods. The increase could make housing unaffordable for some in the most flood-prone areas.

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is in the midst of updating its management plan, which may include changes to areas with special protection like Pelican Shoal.

The annual two-day lobster mini season is controversial in the Florida Keys — and sometimes dangerous. This year there are some new efforts to make things safer for lobster hunters and the environment.

As people get ready to head out onto the water in large numbers over the holiday weekend, the state has released its annual report on accidents.

Least terns are protected in Florida. That didn't stop a Keys yacht club from removing nearly 130 chicks and eggs to repair its roof.

State wildlife officials are considering whether to allow people to catch and keep goliath grouper for the first time in more than 30 years.

A total of about 144,000 of the genetically modified mosquitoes are set to be released over 12 weeks in the trial's first phase.

More than 20 people traveled more than 600 miles from the Keys to Tallahassee to make their voices heard on a bill that would overturn Key West's limits on cruise ships.

Spiny lobster season in Florida ends with the month of March. And the first full pandemic fishing season saw mixed results, with prices bouncing back but lobster missing from some key areas.

More than 1,200 seniors age 65 and older at the Ocean Reef Club, a gated community north of Key Largo, had received the vaccine by mid-January, according to a newsletter emailed to residents.

Every year a lighted Christmas tree appears on the old Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys — on a section that's not connected to land. WLRN spoke with a couple of the "elves" behind the annual lighting and decoration of Fred the Tree.