Florida Keys

Thousands of Florida Keys residents and visitors gathered on Key West’s Duval Street late Sunday afternoon for a second-line march paying tribute to internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett, on the one-year anniversary of his Sept. 1 death.The procession was a highlight of the “Just a Few Friends Key West” celebration on the island where Buffett lived during some of his most productive years -- developing the “tropical rock” style and laid-back persona that helped make him a world-renowned musical icon.

It's been one year since Jimmy Buffett died, and the environmentalist wrote in his will that his holdings need to be environmentally sound, forever

New York might have its July 4 hotdog-eating contest, but competitors in Key West gobbled much sweeter fare during the World Famous Key Lime Pie Eating Championship — and Hector Rodriguez consumed it faster than anyone else.

A forum featuring descendants of five former United States presidents, including grandsons of Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman, highlighted Presidents Day weekend at the Harry S. Truman Little White House in Key West.James Earl Carter IV, Clifton Truman Daniel and other descendants discussed the influence of the presidency during the forum at the Little White House, now Florida’s only presidential museum. The sprawling residence was Truman’s refuge for 11 working vacations during his 1945-53 administration — and later welcomed Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and their family.

Some corals were left behind during an evacuation of many corals off Florida despite water temperatures that rose far above 87 degrees.

A 150-year-old lighthouse that has been extinguished for a decade is shining again at night in the Florida Keys.

Divers with Reef Renewal, a Florida Keys-based coral restoration group, have begun moving small coral colonies from a successful shallow coral nursery located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to deeper, cooler water.

New phone customers in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys will get a 645 area code starting Aug. 4, the state Public Service Commission announced Friday.

White-bearded Gerrit Marshall from Madison, Wisconsin, has won the 2023 Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of Key West's annual Hemingway Days festival that ends Sunday.

Twenty-five competitors chowed down on the Florida Keys’ signature dessert July 4 in Key West -- without using their hands -- but no one did it faster than Joshua Mogle, a 38-year-old tire manufacturing manager from Altoona, Iowa.