The Latest Breaking News from Surfside

The announcement in the Surfside condo collapse litigation this month came as a surprise: Less than a year after the June 24 tragedy that killed 98 people and shook condo residents across Florida, relatives of the victims and survivors had reached a settlement that will pay them nearly $1 billion.

MIAMI — The beachfront property where 98 people died in last year’s Surfside condo collapse will be sold to a billionaire developer from Dubai for $120 million after no other bids were submitted ahead of a Friday evening deadline.

MIAMI — After escaping the Champlain Towers South moments before it collapsed last summer, Ileana Monteagudo says she has been trying to rebuild her life at age 65 with no savings and lingering anxiety from the Surfside disaster.

MIAMI — Surfside commissioners voted Monday to approve a $2 million insurance settlement in the class-action lawsuit related to the Champlain Towers South condo collapse.

MIAMI — Families of the victims in the Surfside condo collapse will gather at the exact time and site of the tragedy on June 24 for a memorial event on the one-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South disaster.

In the 42 years Rosemary Deadman has lived on the shore of Surfside Beach, she has watched the sea devour about 12 metres of beach, bringing the water ever closer to her back door.

MIAMI — Victims of the Surfside condominium collapse made impassioned pleas about how money in a legal dispute should be divided, but at the end of a court hearing Wednesday the judge overseeing the case was not swayed and approved an $83 million settlement he had previously endorsed.

In Florida, conversations about race and sexuality are more dangerous than aging buildings in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse. School books need more scrutiny than rising property insurance premiums. Lies about widespread election fraud are more urgently addressed than real sky-high housing and renting costs.

What if Champlain Towers South had been inspected 20 years before it collapsed and killed 98 people last year?

The Florida House unanimously passed a bill that would require statewide recertification of any condo building above three stories high in response to the Surfside condominium collapse that killed 98 people

MIAMI — Since the deadly Surfside condo collapse more than seven months ago, any clues hidden in the debris that would shed light on what went wrong at Champlain Towers South have been kept under the sole watch of federal investigators. But that is likely about to change.