The Miami Herald

Saving West Grove's history and a 'small 'd' developer.

Miami mayor Manny Diaz is closing down illegal housing as part of his campaign to revitalize the city.

The average urban driver spends 62 hours sitting in traffic. Riders on the elevated Metrorail look on the congested traffic below as entertainment.

Plans for a $400 million commuter train that would connect South Beach to downtown Miami are shelved.

Dozens of schools were accepted with flaws, risks; The school district paid millions to the contractors and architects who turned in shoddy work.

Tens of millions of dollars are wasted in slow, sloppy construction, according to a Miami Herald expose.

Bethany, OK, has drawn a fat blue line around its city limits to keep its residents from unknowingly visiting businesses outside city boundaries.

The City of Fort Lauderdale is asking State and County officials for approval to increase downtown housing.

A Miami Herald columnist is annoyed at a group that ranked the 50 United States in order of intelligence. Florida ranked 47th.

Seventeen years after the first house was built on the western edge of South Florida civilization, the sprawling city of Weston has reached completion.

In southern Miami-Dade County, the row crop industry is dying, and the chances for large-scale farms' survival have never been as slim.

Traditional developments with smaller lots on straight streets in a grid pattern are making a comeback with planners.

A historic home built in the 1920s in Fort Lauderdale's Rio Vista neighborhood, unanimously recommended for historic designation by the City's Historic Society in May, is scheduled to be torn down and replaced by a modern home.

The names include McMansions, monster homes, scrape-offs and bash-n-builds. Preservations want them to go away.

A $16.9 billion proposed transit plan aims to overhall Miami-Dade County's piecemeal mass transit system.

Some environmentalists criticize the American Automobile Association for supporting policies that favor the automobile and road-paving industries.

Transportation experts, elected officials and civic leaders agreed at an April 10 forum that South Florida's clogged roads need a proven, long-term fix, but whether a regional transit authority is the answer is still a question.

Miami Beach has found a new source of sand to replenish the city's northern shoreline.

Florida's Broward County Transit is literally driving riders away, and faces allegations of poor management.

Residents of Broward County, FL, voice their opinions about new development in the county.