Miami News is the daily file: commission and county votes, budget items, zoning approvals, transit changes, storm response and public safety. Reporters attend the meetings and read the agendas beforehand, so items explain what passed, who voted which way, and when residents will feel it.
Daily reporting on Miami and Miami-Dade government, development approvals, policing, transit, storm response and the votes taken at commission meetings.
The Miami Grand Prix has run at Hard Rock Stadium since 2022 under a ten-year agreement — and the money split with Miami Gardens is the detail the race announcements never lead with.
A practical guide to Cultural Fridays on Southwest Eighth Street: the dates the organizer publishes, the city permit rules behind any Miami street event, and how to get there without a car.
With a bond referendum and special election set for November 3, 2026, and Tallahassee weighing property-tax elimination, Mayor Eileen Higgins's line-by-line budget review defines the summer at 3500 Pan American Drive.
The Miami Downtown Development Authority's Baywalk and Riverwalk tracking puts the 10-mile Miami Riverwalk and Greenway at 68 percent complete, against 89 percent for the downtown bayfront walk.
The city's capital improvements office has installed 47 of 50 one-way tidal backflow valves citywide, a $2.5 million Miami Forever Bond program aimed at keeping Biscayne Bay out of the storm drains.
Miami commissioners voted 3-1 on July 10, 2025 to abolish the Bayfront Park Management Trust, and the downtown waterfront park entered 2026 under direct city management while restoration work continued.
Miami's new mayor has promised a deep review of an operating budget that reporting put at $1.8 billion, as Tallahassee's property-tax debate threatens the roughly $650 million in property tax revenue the city collects.
Miami-Dade's transit department cut Metromover to weekday service and introduced a per-trip fare effective February 1, 2026, while Metrorail riders near Dadeland South endured single-tracking into April.
Miami Dade College reopened the 1925 National Historic Landmark on Biscayne Boulevard on September 16, 2025, after a two-year, roughly $25 million restoration, with four new exhibitions inside.
The club's 2026 schedule puts the first match at the new stadium near Miami International Airport on April 4 against Austin FC, ending six seasons of home games in Fort Lauderdale.