Susannah Bryan

Pumps remain closed at a Mobil station in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

‘Like the ocean was on Las Olas’: South Florida under flood warning as historic rainfall ends

April 14, 2023 at 1:37 a.m.

South Floridians woke up Thursday morning to their homes flooded, streets gridlocked with abandoned cars and rescue efforts underway after nearly 26 inches of rain fell in a period of...

Island residents await evacuation on the island of Fort Myers Beach on Friday, Sept. 30. Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane on the Southwest coast of Florida.

‘We watched everything just go flying by’: Deadly Hurricane Ian leaves communities unrecognizable

October 3, 2022 at 11:06 p.m.

Days after Hurricane Ian barreled through Florida, rescue teams are still hunting for survivors amid a landscape forever altered by a deadly storm surge that killed dozens and destroyed homes,...

Rescue workers search for survivors and remains in the rubble on Monday, July 5, 2021, after the remaining portion of the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South Condo was brought down the previous evening with a controlled demolition in Surfside, Fla. First responders have been searching for survivors since the building partially collapsed around 2 a.m. on Thursday, June 24, 2021

Four more Surfside victims identified as toll rises to 9 dead, 152 missing

June 28, 2021 at 12:38 p.m.

The names of another four people confirmed killed in the Surfside condo building disaster were released Sunday night after their bodies were found in the ongoing search and recovery effort....

Karla Croqueta performs outside of Hamburger Mary's during The Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival in Wilton Manors on Saturday, June 19, 2021.

One dead after pickup truck drives into crowd at Wilton Manors LGBTQ Pride parade

June 21, 2021 at 2:35 a.m.

5 p.m. Sunday, June 20, update: A truck plowed through a crowd at an LGBTQ Pride parade Saturday night — but the 77-year-old man behind the wheel did not intend...

Traffic is backed up along Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. One out-of-the-box plan would have a pair of one-way underground tunnels taking passengers in Teslas back and forth from downtown to the beach.

In South Florida, a Tesla tunnel to the beach may not be a pipe dream

April 11, 2021 at 2:24 p.m.

Imagine whizzing through an underground tunnel that travels below Las Olas Boulevard and the Intracoastal Waterway all the way to the beach. Your chauffeur is a self-driving Tesla that drops...

People head to Fort Lauderdale beach on Friday, March 19, 2021. Spring breakers are flocking to South Florida despite the ongoing pandemic.

Spring Break crowd storms Fort Lauderdale beach — COVID or not

March 7, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

Thong bikinis, cold beer and maskless throngs. That's how Spring Break looked Thursday on the famous Fort Lauderdale strip, just days into the start of the popular college pasttime that...

A muchos veteranos se les negó la vacuna COVID-19. Ganan demasiado dinero

January 21, 2021 at 5:19 p.m.

Sirvieron en el ejército hace décadas, a menudo arriesgando sus vidas por su país. Pero los veteranos que envejecen están aprendiendo que su sacrificio puede no garantizarles una vacuna COVID-19...

A chihuahua looks out from a cage at the Broward County animal shelter in Fort Lauderdale.

Tropical Storm Eta’s floods, COVID-19 pandemic spur ‘unexpected influx’ at county animal shelter

November 17, 2020 at 7:31 p.m.

An "unexpected influx" of dogs has officials at the Broward County-run shelter scrambling to find homes and foster care volunteers. Nearly 10 million pets could be displaced in the coming...

If you do have to self-quarantine or isolate yourself, you should have as little contact with others as possible. Ideally, you would stay in a private room that other members of the household do not enter. However, since that is not always realistic, you should wear a mask to protect others. "It is not necessary for the family to wear a mask, only the sick person," said Dr. Nancy Gin, medical director of quality and clinical analysis for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California.

How shoppers can avoid catching coronavirus at grocery stores

March 31, 2020 at 10:50 p.m.

We can live without our shopping malls and trips to the beach — just some of the luxuries stolen away by the coronavirus pandemic. But we can't live without our...

The Regal Princess Cruise ship is seen at sea about 5 miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Sunday, March 8, 2020. The Regal Princess was supposed to dock in Port Everglades Sunday morning but instead was sailing back and forth off the coast of Florida awaiting tests for the novel coronavirus from two crew members.

Regal Princess cruise ship docks at Port Everglades after two crew members are tested for coronavirus

March 9, 2020 at 10:59 p.m.

Thousands of passengers were stuck on the Regal Princess cruise ship for an extra day because of coronavirus fears. The ship was barred from returning to Port Everglades until coronavirus...

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