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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Palm Beach County voters can now carry the elections office in their pocket. Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link has launched Vote Palm Beach, a free mobile app available in the Apple App Store and ...
Early Voting in the 2026 General Election runs October 19 through November 1 at 28 Palm Beach County locations, open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
BOCA RATON, FL — Residents came to Mayor Andy Thomson's town hall asking how to stop new development. He told them the city likely can't. Speaking to residents Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Spanish River Library, Thomson said a citywide ban on new residential construction would almo...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton City Council members voted 4-1 Tuesday to repeal the city's ban on feeding pigeons, iguanas, rats and mice, less than two months after the council adopted it, and approved an eight-story, 97-unit apartment building in the Park at Broken Sound. Both vot...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton's Community Redevelopment Agency voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve The Sanborn, an eight-story private members club planned across Northeast First Avenue from Sanborn Square, after residents raised concerns about traffic, parking and how much more developme...
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Boca Raton Mayor Andy Thomson holds a Town Hall meeting tonight, Wednesday, October 14, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Spanish River Library. Residents can hear directly from the mayor about what’s happening i...
DELRAY BEACH, FL — Delray Beach’s finance chief is gone. The two anonymous newsletters covering City Hall can’t agree on why. The Delray Gazette, in an Oct. 4 email, said Chief Financial Officer Henry Dachowitz resigned a few days after a heated exchange with Mayor Tom Carney dur...
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Palm Beach County’s Election Canvassing Board is welcoming the public to view a test of election equipment for the November vote. We are a long ways from the 2000 election and the dangling chads tha...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — The room was booked until 10:45 a.m. because it was needed for voting. By the end, Palm Beach County Commissioner Maria Sachs was talking over a crowd and warning she would shut the meeting down. The Oct. 2 workshop at the Andre Fladell Civic Center was bill...
Former Lotus Palm racquet director William Ljungstrom says the HOA and three board members falsely told the entire community he took money.
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Time is running out if you want your voice to be heard during the election on November 3rd. The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections today released a statement, reminding everyone of upcoming deadline...
Dozens of frustrated Delray Beach residents confronted a city-hired consultant at a heated community meeting Thursday night, demanding solutions for systemic failures at the Delray Beach Memorial Gardens Municipal Cemetery, including cases where burial plots were allegedly resold...
LOXAHATCHEE, FL — A Palm Beach County father has filed a negligence lawsuit against the School Board of Palm Beach County, alleging his son was thrown around inside a school bus and injured when the driver stopped suddenly after leaving Seminole Ridge High School, according to a ...
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Despite what one notable Palm Beach County resident says — even though he votes by mail himself — voting by mail is safe, secure, legitimate, and very much a thing in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach Coun...
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Homeowners in the City of Delray Beach will pay slightly more in property tax for the 26/26 fiscal year. The City of Delray Beach issued this advisory to BocaNewsNow.com on Thursday: >> The Delray Beach ...
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Checking out a stack of library books isn’t the only reason to stop by a Palm Beach County Library System branch this election season. The Library System is an authorized voter registration agency, and eve...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — The Palm Beach County School Board gave Superintendent Michael J. Burke an overall rating of "Excellent" in his annual evaluation, though board members' written comments also flagged declining enrollment, a difficult year on employee raises, kindergarten rea...
Delray Beach Mayor Tom Carney says he's not in favor of raising the city millage rate on the city's homeowners, since taxes may already be going up because of rising property values. "Even if we do nothing, we just keep the current millage, the residents are going to pay almost 7...
BOCA RATON, FL — A tennis and pickleball professional who ran the racquet and fitness programs at the Lotus Palm community in Boca Raton has sued the neighborhood's homeowners association, its property management company and three board members, alleging in a new civil complaint ...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL — The City of Palm Beach Gardens and a company that ran food and beverage service at its municipal golf course are facing a wrongful death lawsuit over a 2024 attack that killed a 65-year-old golfer, according to a complaint filed in Palm Beach County Circu...
DELRAY BEACH, FL — Residents have spent months telling Delray Beach city commissioners what is wrong at Memorial Gardens. On Sept. 30, they get to say it to the consultant. The city will host an open community meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the Delray Beach Community C...
BOCA RATON, FL — The Boca Raton City Council approved a $519,925 contract Tuesday for a master plan covering Memorial Park and the surrounding downtown civic area, with three of five members casting votes after a recusal and an absence. Resolution No. 113-2026 authorizes City Man...
DELRAY BEACH, FL — Delray Beach has hired an outside firm to review how it runs its municipal cemetery, weeks after residents and funeral directors told city commissioners that Memorial Gardens had run out of burial plots and that families were being turned away. The Office of th...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — The most detailed case made for the Boca Raton Achievement Center at the Sept. 1 Palm Beach County Commission meeting did not come from a commissioner. It came from a family that had been through three schools in three years. Commissioners proclaimed Septemb...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton's Planning and Zoning Board voted 7-0 Thursday to approve a skate park and pump track at North Park, rejecting calls from Boca Teeca condominium leaders to delay the decision for a noise and traffic study. The vote was final action by the board on a si...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Palm Beach County commissioners voted 5-2 Thursday to advance a countywide property tax rate of 4.5000 mills for the coming budget year, keeping the rate unchanged from the current year while raising an estimated $85.3 million more than the rolled-back rate ...
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Delray Beach Saturday says it is now retaining a consultant to review how the city runs its 120-year-old municipal cemetery, part of a broader push to fix operations while honoring the site’s history. Ci...
BOCA RATON, FL — All five Beach and Park District commissioners put shovels in the dirt Thursday morning at the corner of NW 2nd Ave. and Jeffrey St. The 70 acres behind them are now officially under construction. The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District held its groundbrea...
BOCA RATON, FL — The Boca Raton City Council introduced an ordinance that would keep parking garages and other uninhabitable spaces inside the city's building recertification program, holding the local standard tighter than the one state lawmakers set in 2025. Council members too...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds brought his campaign to Delray Beach Thursday evening, meeting voters in a question-and-answer format at the Dr. Andre Fladell Civic Center as the Florida governor's race enters its final stretch before November. Donalds, who now c...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Palm Beach County Administrator Joseph Abruzzo told commissioners Tuesday he will present a WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Palm Beach County Administrator Joseph Abruzzo told commissioners Tuesday he will present a budget that fully funds the Jim Brandon Equestrian C...
