Police body camera video from the scene of a June 2023 crash involving firefighter David Wyatt in downtown Delray Beach. Wyatt was also the driver of a city aerial ladder fire truck Dec. 28 that was hit by a Brightline train. Police video provided b
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George Bush Boulevard's bascule bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach will be closed from 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, to 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, for essential maintenance and repair to the bridge house, machinery, and associated bridge
The firetruck demolished by a Brightline train in a Dec. 28 crash in downtown Delray Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Ten fire department employees without valid driver’s licenses, city investigation finds
Update: On Jan. 9, Delray Beach released
The Center for Arts and Innovation had planned to replace Mizner Park's amphitheater and surrounding area with a performing arts complex, but it was not able to meet the fundraising commitments it had made with Boca Raton to be able to use the city-
The Palm Beach County Commission recognized The Coastal Star’s 16 years of publication with a proclamation. Commissioner Marci Woodward, whose district includes the paper’s entire circulation area, sponsored the proclamation honoring the paper, whic
Anglers on a small flats boat make their way past the sea wall at South Inlet Park in Boca Raton. The wall is scheduled for replacement. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Projects aim to raise ground level, increase sea wall heights
By Jane Musgrave
A yel
By Rich Pollack
With local towns and cities struggling to one-up each other in the effort to hire qualified police officers, Highland Beach is raising the ante by buying 11 new vehicles and offering take-home police cars to its officers.
“This is go
City manager pressured to address corruption concerns
By John Pacenti
The Delray Beach City Commission since the arrest of a Code Enforcement officer in October has detailed a parade of horribles at meetings when it has come to that division.
Mayor
American oystercatchers mingle alongside construction equipment on the north island of Bonefish Cove. Photos provided by Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management
By Mary Thurwachter
While snowbirds flock to airports and high
Via Mizner apartments (right), the only completed building of the three shown in this rendering of a finished complex, is the subject of a foreclosure notice. But Penn-Florida said it intends to repay the loan involved. Still under construction are
By Mary Hladky
A New Jersey man has been charged with DUI manslaughter in the Dec. 15 death of a bicyclist who was struck by the man’s Chevy Equinox on a stretch of State Road A1A next to Red Reef Park.
Felipe Soares De Moraes, 41, of suburban Boca R
There’s a phrase I’ve been desiring to say for several years. Finally, I think I can.
I’m retired. Yep. There I said it.
As of Jan. 1, I turned the editorial reins of this newspaper over to the talented and competent people my husband and I have recr
Mayor against staffers handling code enforcement — Ocean Ridge Mayor Geoff Pugh warned that the town does not want unauthorized staffers acting like code enforcement officers — especially when it comes to ticky-tacky potential violations like a littl
Missing and broken windows and doors on the second floor are among violations at the home on Coconut Lane. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By John Pacenti
Ocean Ridge commissioners, in a particularly ornery mood at their Dec. 9 meeting, rejected the to
By John Pacenti
Delray Beach Commissioner Rob Long voiced outrage at “a sweetheart plea deal” for a Clearwater man who in February allegedly defaced the city’s rainbow gay pride intersection by leaving a skid mark through it.
“We’re not going to allo
By Steve Plunkett
Future two-story homes along Gulf Stream’s signature Polo Drive and Gulfstream Road will have smaller second stories, while new one-story homes there will be able to be five feet closer to the street under new rules the town is co
Liza Thornton (l-r), Joan Lorne, Darlene Duggan, Ginny Cairo, Sally Willis and Lydia Weis spend hours on the beach collecting discarded bottle caps to turn into art, such as this octopus. Photos provided
By Ron Hayes
When she’s home in Colorado, Sall
By Steve Plunkett
For rescuing a woman pulled into the ocean by rip currents, veteran Gulf Stream Police Sgt. Bernard O’Donnell was handed a lifesaver award in an emotional presentation Dec. 13.
Tragically, he was unable to save the woman’s 15-year-o
Combining properties puts owner in a fix — The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office combined residential properties at 316 Andrews Ave. and 1137 Vista del Mar Drive North at their owner’s request, but Delray Beach regulations don’t allow for
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream is ending its decades-long contract with trash hauler Waste Management Inc. of Florida and shifting instead to Boca Raton-based Coastal Waste and Recycling Inc.
The move means monthly bills for picking up trash from resi
