KEY WEST - Wildlife officials are investigating the killings of several endangered Key deer, the tiny deer that live exclusively in the Florida Keys. ...more

January 23, 2008

Like the butterfly-to-be in his most famous book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," Eric Carle is changing. ...more

December 16, 2007

Far more Cubans are making the risky crossing to the Florida Keys this year than the Coast Guard can hope to stop. They're also landing on other beaches and finding new routes here. ...more

November 30, 2007

Clara gets a conch shell nutcracker and visits the land of the Sea Star Fairy. That's what happens when the classic "Nutcracker" ballet gets reworked as a Key West fantasy. ...more

November 23, 2007

Reversing a decision that some found bureaucratically absurd, the Federal Emergency Management Agency granted $99,766 Wednesday to an aquarium that saved taxpayers a bundle by catching replacements for the fish it lost to Hurricane Katrina. ...more

November 22, 2007

KEY LARGO - Not content to carve their pumpkins in the traditional way, several divers carved jack-o'-lanterns more than 30 feet below the ocean's surface. ...more

October 22, 2007

This is the year that the PW and I are more or less celebrating our 20 years of retirement. It really is less of a celebration for me because I was only retired for three of those years before I realized that we needed another income in order to continue a more than modest lifestyle. I have never been in a position of not being able to find a decent job because I have had plenty of experience in many hobbies, that while expensive, were capable of earning money if need be. Not being able to accept a more modest lifestyle may eventually prove to have been a mistake. In looking around among my friends and peers I am seeing as many as half are perhaps in the same boat as I. Of course I am speculating and have no certification of that statement. I can only speak of my own experience as a federal retiree. ...more

October 18, 2007

Another slow hurricane season in Florida has commercial fishermen enthusiastic about the potential for a productive stone crab season when the annual harvest opens today. ...more

October 15, 2007