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The commission had already committed to giving BSO's Gregory Tony $50 million more next year but he wants $120 million. BSO is the county's biggest agency.
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The iconic South Florida landfill is set to expand its footprint according to a new solid waste plan that has the county divided. Public hearings on the matter will take place on Sept. 17 and Oct. 8.
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A nasty rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland school massacre and some families of the 17 murdered has erupted in court.
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The board is alleging that the skyrocketing price of the drug in the last 20 years is unnatural. As many as 3,500 Broward School Board employees may be impacted by these price increases.
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Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park in Broward County was included in Florida's much maligned Great Outdoors Initiative. The park's history as Broward's 'Colored Beach' has inspired defenders to protest the changes.
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Outgoing Broward School Board member Daniel Foganholi has been appointed to the State Board of Education. This comes just days after Foganholi lost the primary reelection to his seat on the Broward School Board.
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School board candidates in Florida backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis were defeated in several counties, results that opponents of the Republican say are a rebuke to his conservative education agenda.
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Lips, a popular drag club in Oakland Park, was set to close its doors until investors from Key West swooped in and kept the lights on.
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The rollout of new metal detectors made for a chaotic first day of school in Broward County. The botched rollout has further frustrated students and parents in the country’s sixth-largest school district. The district has long faced criticism for rushing new policy changes.
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Kenneth Pinkney, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty to a hate crime in assaulting the carrier, who was wearing a hijab as she delivered the mail in October.
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As a new school year comes to a start, South Florida schools wrestle with everything from metal detectors, enrollment and a new law that will change school start times by the 2026-27 school year. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, classes start Monday, in Monroe County they start on Wednesday, and in Miami-Dade County the first bell rings Thursday.
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Broward County's new Supervisor of Elections facility, which has been 20 years in the making, features massive single pane windows and multiple elevated viewing areas — part of the county’s commitment to more transparency in its election process.