More than 25,000 annually are jailed in Dallas County compared to Miami-Dade's 11,000. Inmates with mental illnesses experience longer jail stays, often because evaluation processes take more time.

Miami-Dade is offering housing assistance to low income people and the county will begin receiving applications for their waiting list on Monday. The site-based waitlists for the Project-Based ...

Miami-Dade County is enforcing a long-standing 1 percent sales tax on restaurants that serve alcohol and gross over $400,000 annually, which funds homeless and domestic violence services.

Miami-Dade has officially flipped. For the first time in our county’s history, there are more active registered Republicans than Democrats. Just four years ago, Democrats held a 220,000-voter lead.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado and Key Biscayne residents are pushing an alternative plan for a remade Rickenbacker Causeway that calls for a viaduct for motor traffic, less surface ...

With a projected $387 million deficit looming over next year’s $3.6 billion general fund, Miami-Dade County faces its most severe budget shortfall since the 2008 financial crisis, ...

The need for the trash trains was born of a February 2023 fire at an incinerator facility in the Miami suburb of Doral, used by Miami-Dade County to burn about 1 million tons of trash per year and ...

The latest voter rolls in the county now show 464,370 registered Republicans, or 34% of voters, 440,790 Democrats, or 32.27%. Independent and third-party voters together number 460,783, or 33.7% ...

Florida Republicans took the lead in voter registration in Miami-Dade County on Monday, flipping what was once considered a Democratic stronghold for the first time in the state’s history ...

Every day, Miami-Dade County sends 230 tons of its least savory export north on trains to a transfer station in Fort Pierce, where trucks take the trash to landfills.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — Some residents in Fort Pierce are dealing with what they say is an unbearable problem. Their problem involves trash that is brought by train from Miami-Dade County.

Republicans filed the bill in response to Miami-Dade County considering allowing an incinerator in Doral to be rebuilt on the site where it burned for three weeks in 2023.