The Latest Breaking News from Fort Lauderdale

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — South Florida is now under a tropical storm watch, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 5 p.m. Eastern time update.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Colorado State’s outlook for an active hurricane season became slightly more active with Thursday’s update, which forecast 20 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes this year.

A protester who suffered eye damage when a rubber bullet fired by a Fort Lauderdale police officer struck her in the face is suing the city

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’ll be a wet weekend in South Florida as a disturbance that could become the Atlantic’s first named storm of 2022 approaches the state from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — LaToya Ratlieff, the Delray Beach woman who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet fired by a Fort Lauderdale police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, is suing the city of Fort Lauderdale and several of its police officers, accusing them…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The disturbance churning near the southeastern Gulf of Mexico has the potential to do what hasn’t been done in two years.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s looking increasingly likely that the Atlantic’s first named storm of 2022 could form this week in the Gulf of Mexico, possibly affecting Florida by week’s end.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The six-month hurricane season begins Wednesday, and outlooks from three respected entities — NOAA (the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), Colorado State University and AccuWeather, the independent forecasting service — predict above-average activity for the third consecutive year.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Floridians are roughly evenly divided over the new state law restricting lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to results of a Florida Atlantic University poll.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Florida and much of the U.S. impose major restrictions on access to abortion, Florida residents don’t like the trend.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A broad area of low pressure, which would be the remnant of a tropical storm, is expected to form in the southwest Gulf of Mexico by the middle of the week and it could gradually develop and drift eastward toward South Florida, according to the National…