By Ron Hayes
When the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago on Valentine’s Day 1920, women couldn’t vote.
Six more months would have to pass before the U.S. Constitution caught up with them.
Last year, both the 19th Amendment and the league m
By Charles Elmore
Health agencies in Palm Beach County will receive 9,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses during the first week of February, an agency chief said, a sign of change after outcry about overwhelming reliance on Publix to distribute doses locally.
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton and Palm Beach County are pushing back against a federal appellate court ruling by a three-judge panel that struck down their bans on the controversial practice of conversion therapy.
The city and county filed a petition on
Adkins and Layman are caught on camera by videographer Jack Schulman. Photo provided
Impact 100 Palm Beach County and the Boca Raton Resort & Club sponsored a Zoom gathering led by organization President Kathy Adkins, membership Co-Chairwomen Kathryn
JFK Medical Center main and north campuses and Palms West Hospital collaborated with the technology company EverFi to launch a mental health and wellness digital education course for middle and high school students in Palm Beach County.
Called Ment
PBC Emergency Order 2020-14 Issued Restricting Operating Hours of Restaurants,
Food Establishments and other Businesses
Palm Beach County issues Emergency Order 2020-014, effective 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2020.
No establishment permitte
By Charles Elmore
An emergency order puts beaches out of bounds for the Fourth of July weekend across Palm Beach County.
The county's order to close beaches temporarily joins similar decrees in Miami-Dade and Broward counties aimed at avoiding la
By Mary Hladky
Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner on Friday asked Gov. Ron DeSantis to allow more business openings in the county.
Kerner, who announced he had sent a letter to DeSantis during a Friday news conference, said bars located within resta
Morgan Didio, a student at Lynn University, walks with her friend Emma Fleurian, a student at FAU, along the beach at South Beach Park in Boca Raton the morning of May 18, the day Palm Beach County reopened the beaches. They were closed for weeks bec
COVID-19 Press Briefing Summary #12, April 27, 2020
During an afternoon news conference at the Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center on April 27, County Mayor Dave Kerner announced a coordinated plan to reopen limited recreational facilitie
Joan Weir and her daughter, Louise Glover, stroll Highland Beach near Yamato Rock, a limestone outcropping slated to become part of Milani Park. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Louise Glover remembers when she and her friends would gath
By Mary Hladky
Palm Beach County residents who use Airbnb and HomeAway to rent out their homes or spare bedrooms now must provide information that will allow county Tax Collector Anne Gannon to make sure they are paying bed taxes.
The requirement is p
By Rich Pollack
The sign proclaiming the large open space at the south end of Highland Beach to be the future location of Cam D. Milani Park is likely to remain there for at least another five years.
What will happen to the 5.6-acre property — and
As Palm Beach County public schools break for the summer, it’s important to remember that not every student looks forward to days away from school. In fact, one in four children doesn’t know where they will get their next meal.
Palm Beach County is th
Billionaire Michael S. Dell acquired the Boca Raton Resort & Club, which will continue to be managed by Hilton under the Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts brand. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
In the largest property deal in Palm Beach County history,
Lucia Milani sold the property to the county years ago with the intent that it would become a park as a way to honor her late husband. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
The weathered sign at the south end of Highland Beach proclaiming an
By Dan Moffett
It could be weeks until Palm Beach County building officials determine the fate of the Gulf Stream Views project between Briny Breezes and the County Pocket.
In November, inspectors shut down work on developer NL Living’s plan to build
By Steve Plunkett
County Commissioner Robert Weinroth continued making the rounds of his newly expanded constituency in January.
Weinroth, who took his seat from term-limited Steven Abrams in late November, wants to make sure municipal leaders know h
By Jane Smith
A July medical emergency in the County Pocket has led to an updated mutual aid agreement and could lead to faster response times for life-threatening emergencies in that 16.5-acre enclave just south of Briny Breezes.
Boynton Beach and P
