MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

A man was hospitalized after a possible lightning strike Thursday afternoon in southwest Miami-Dade, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

The father of a former UFC fighter is facing an attempted second-degree murder charge after he’s accused of shooting a man in both of his arms during a fight at the home of mixed martial artist Jorge Masvidal.

Boys track and field athletes from Rockledge High and Miami Northwestern were disqualified from the Region 4-3A meet Thursday in Miami after a reported altercation between team members.

Authorities are investigating swatting incidents that occurred Tuesday morning at both Florida International University’s main campus in west Miami-Dade and City College in Hollywood, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

A police sergeant with the Golden Beach Police Department was shot overnight Saturday during a pursuit of two suspects in a stolen vehicle, authorities said.

An Amber Alert was issued Saturday morning for Oliver Williams, a 3-year-old boy missing out of Miami and considered endangered, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The Florida Senate on Monday released a 98-page bill that includes proposed changes ranging from clamping down on voter-registration groups to relaxing campaign-finance reporting rules.

The City of Miami Beach is taking drastic measures to keep people safe during Spring Break following a pair of fatal shootings.

Miami-Dade firefighters have extinguished a large fire that erupted Tuesday morning at a welding company in Medley which left two people dead.

A police officer had to take a scaly suspect into custody.

State troopers arrested a Doral man Monday morning they say was seen on social media firing gunshots from a moving Lamborghini on the Palmetto Expressway this past week.

A man and woman from southwest Miami-Dade stand accused of kidnapping and robbing a 75-year-old woman in Hialeah as part of what police are calling a “pigeon drop” scam, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne.

An island near Miami boasts a median list price of $6.1 million.

The arena where the Miami Heat play will soon have a new name, after the team and Miami-Dade County decided Friday to begin actions to terminate their relationship with FTX on the same day that the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy.

If you have a vote-by-mail ballot you need to fix or a provisional ballot you need to provide documents for, you have a couple more days to do that because of Hurricane Nicole.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Val Demings visited a Coral Springs community center Thursday, calling for passage of “common sense” gun control laws and calling out her challenger, incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, for not supporting them.

The number of registered Republicans voting early is running about neck and neck with Democrats in the traditional Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County.

Officials with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office released surveillance video Wednesday showing last month’s violent attack on a canvasser for Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio in Hialeah.

Royal Caribbean International has revealed the first look at the highly anticipated new cruise ship.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection firearms instructor conducting a course was accidentally shot and killed at a west Miami-Dade gun range Wednesday morning, officials said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday proposed legislation that would prohibit the purchase of lands near military bases by “China and other countries of concern.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a major toll relief proposal Wednesday that would give Florida commuters using SunPass or E-ZPass a 50% discount for an entire year.

Florida voters in 2022 will decide if Gov. DeSantis will stay in office, who should run the Florida Legislature, who should represent them in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, all the way down to county commissioner and school board member.

Charlie Crist, the Democrat running against Gov. Ron DeSantis, announced on Saturday that he has chosen Karla Hernandez as his pick for running mate and Lieutenant Governor.

Two people close to his campaign say Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist is expected to announce that he has chosen the Miami-Dade County teachers union president as his running mate.

News 6 meteorologist Candace Campos shares her memories about Hurricane Andrew and how it helped shape who she is.

A man driving the wrong way on a busy South Florida highway crashed into another car, killing all five women in the other vehicle.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday at least 20 people across Florida were charged with voter fraud after an investigation conducted by the newly created Office of Election Crimes and Security.

Police in South Florida say a 29-year-old officer has died after being shot in the head during a confrontation with a robbery suspect in Miami.

Florida’s annual Python Challenge began Friday at 8 a.m.

Dozens of firefighters responded to a fire at the outdoor Tropicana Flea Market in Miami.

First Lady Jill Biden will arrive at the Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach Thursday afternoon as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, according to a news release.

Video making the rounds on social media shows a police officer’s comments to a man during a traffic stop.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday announced registration had begun for the upcoming 2022 Florida Python Challenge.

A Miami-Dade police officer fatally shot a man who called 911 and warned he was going to kill someone if officers didn't respond immediately to his location.

Weeks after Florida lawmakers passed a bill requiring older condominiums to undergo safety inspections to ensure the buildings’ structural integrity, Central Florida condominium association members have many questions about how the new requirements will impact owners.

Nino Pernetti, the owner of Caffe Abbracci in Coral Gables, died on Tuesday night, according to the mayor of Coral Gables.

Police snipers were called to the scene of a water rescue in Florida to protect divers from alligators.

A Florida judge has given gave initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to families who lost loved ones in the collapse last year of a Florida beachfront condominium building in which 98 people died.

Miami-Dade County has agreed to pay a record $4 million for the care of a girl whose spinal cord was severed in a crash with a police cruiser.

A judge sentenced a former South Florida police lieutenant to life in prison for molesting two young girls who are now in their 20s.

The Ultra Music Festival will call Bayfront Park “home” every March for the next five years. Ultra signing a new deal to keep the festival where it is until 2027.

A small plane has crashed on a bridge near Miami, striking an SUV and bursting into flames.

Police have made another arrest over the balloon-popping incident in Biscayne Bay.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that eliminates special districts created before 1968, including Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed four bills between Leon and Miami-Dade counties.

The mayor of Miami-Dade County has declared a crisis in South Florida when it comes to housing affordability.

Gunfire on a Miami Beach street crowded with spring breakers has left three people wounded.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, who served as Florida’s Republican governor from 2007-11, has emerged as the frontrunner in the Democratic primary based on recent polls and campaign dollars raised.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Friday that Florida has passed the mark of 1 million registered recreational vessels.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced $289 million for programs he said were meant to promote student achievement and to close learning gaps in Florida schools.

Residents of a small South Florida town where a beachfront condominium building collapsed last summer killing 98 people voted their mayor out of office on Tuesday.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued a missing child alert for 10-year-old Jerman Octelus from Miami-Dade County.

The option to take a high-speed train from Orlando to Miami will soon become a reality.

An argument in the checkout line of a South Florida grocery store escalated into a fatal shooting.

Ten Cuban migrants in a sinking vessel were rescued off the Florida coast.

A Florida man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for distributing Islamic terrorist propaganda videos online.

Commissioners in Florida's Miami-Dade County have given a nonprofit the green light to issue IDs for immigrants who are in the country illegally and others who don't have identification.

Peacocks could soon be on the outs in some Miami-Dade neighborhoods after the county commission agreed to loosen a law protecting the birds.

The president of Florida International University has resigned after working at the South Florida school for about 45 years.

A Haitian-Chilean businessman considered a key suspect in the killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse has appeared in U.S. federal court and was accused of providing weapons to former Colombian soldiers charged with fatally shooting the country’s leader.

A Miami-Dade County police sergeant shot and critically wounded a 15-year-old early after the boy allegedly drew a gun on the officer during a chase.

Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them.

Florida is seeing a sharp rise in coronavirus infections as the omicron variant rages through the state.

The University of Miami will start the spring semester with remote-only classes amid surging cases of COVID-19 in South Florida.

Officials say a South Florida 46-year-old man walked into a police station and confessed to killing his wife.

As South Florida home prices spiked during the pandemic, some people decided to put their home shopping on pause in the hopes that prices might drop, a decision they are coming to regret.

Genomic surveillance data shows omicron has overtaken the delta variant in Miami-Dade County as the dominant strain of the coronavirus in just a matter of weeks.

Of the 33 law enforcement officers in South Florida who lost their lives in the line of duty over the past two years, three were killed by gunfire, one died in a car crash and another lost his life to a work-related injury.

With the omicron variant looming, the mayor of Miami-Dade County has reinstated an emergency order requiring hospitals to report the numbers of COVID-19 cases treated each day and the availability of hospital beds.

A federal jury in Miami has convicted a man of kidnapping the plastic surgeon who had treated his wife and torturing him with a blow torch to get money from him.

The superintendent for Miami-Dade County schools is being knighted by Spain for his work in expanding Spanish-language programs.

Semmie Lee Williams Jr. was arrested Wednesday and was taken into custody in Miami on a first-degree murder charge for the killing of Ryan Rogers, 14.

Police say a 15-year-old South Florida girl may have been kidnapped and taken to North Carolina by someone she met in an online video game.

Police say officers responding to a call about vehicle thefts in South Florida fatally shot one of the suspects.

Authorities have taken into custody a 26-year-old man who apparently stowed away in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines fight that arrived at Miami International Airport.

A 23-year-old woman called her former high school teacher a “monster,” cursed at him and then clapped as he was handcuffed and led from a Miami-Dade courtroom.

A new lawsuit contends that construction of a luxury building next door triggered the collapse of an already fragile Florida condominium that killed 98 people in June.

A South Florida teenager died in police custody after he was arrested for a carjacking and leading police officers on a chase.

Miami-Dade Police use reward cards to solve child homicides.

Florida’s largest school district is dropping all mask mandates.

The Florida Department of Health is hosting two free COVID-19 vaccination events at middle schools across Lake County.

A South Florida man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed three people and injured 20 others outside a banquet hall earlier this year.

A hearing was held Thursday morning to discuss several topics surrounding the aftermath of the Surfside condominium collapse.

Florida is reporting its deadliest peak since the pandemic began, surpassing previous coronavirus surges in the state.

Following the newest CDC guidance, Miami-Dade County is requiring masks to be worn by employees and visitors inside all county facilities — vaccinated or not.

Efforts to recover human remains from the debris of a South Florida condominium are nearing an end.

Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida say they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site.

Across Florida, people living in the thousands of condominiums rising above the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline wonder if the building collapse in Surfside could happen to their home.

Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse sounded increasingly somber Tuesday about the prospects for finding anyone alive.

Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seem increasingly somber about the prospects for finding anyone alive.

Tropical Storm Elsa continues on a path toward Florida.

The Fourth of July holiday is being marked with somber tones in South Florida, where a collapsed building has left at least 24 dead and more than 120 missing under rubble.

A Surfside, Florida, official pushed back Sunday on the idea that the town was responsible for slowing down a condo board’s plans to make needed structural repairs to a building that eventually collapsed, killing dozens.

Cuba has evacuated 180,000 people amid fears that Tropical Storm Elsa could cause heavy flooding as it passes over the island Monday, after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.

Requirements to recertify older buildings do not exist in most other parts of the state, including Central Florida counties like Brevard and Volusia.

One of the most beloved figures in Miami sports history has visited the site of a Florida condo building collapse.

Elected officials are vowing to conduct multiple investigations into the deadly collapse of an oceanfront Florida condo building.

Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world.