Jake Shore

Florida Highway Patrol is leading efforts statewide to locate and arrest immigrants without legal status. A review of available numbers finds that approximately one in five arrests by troopers occurred in Palm Beach County. WLRN sought to learn why the focus has fallen heavier on the county than Broward and Miami-Dade, which have larger immigrant populations.

Florida's controversial immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz" could shut down as early as next month.

Vendors working for the controversial immigration detention facility in the Everglades were reportedly told that it would shut down next month, according to the New York Times and CBS News.

Candidates in the upcoming West Palm Beach mayoral election are speaking out about a controversial plan to transform parts of Flagler Drive into a lawn like Central Park. Owners of a popular waterfront restaurant in the proposed area said they were threatened with eminent domain by the current mayor.

These Riviera Beach high school students are trained and paid to cover their hometown as journalists — part of a program through local outlet Stet News. "It’s very impactful,” one junior said.

The event was organized by Inner City Innovators, a West Palm Beach organization that intervenes after shootings to prevent retaliation and offers resources to young men caught in cycles of violence.

Florida leaders recently boasted the results of three immigration operations, including one that netted 250 arrests in Broward County. But basic facts about the Broward operation remain unknown

Family members of Jenice Woods and Marcia Pochette, killed in a crash resulting from a West Palm Beach police unit's chase, sued the department. In a new filing on Tuesday, they cite reporting eby WLRN that found the agency's “GHOST” unit left a trail of disciplinary issues and warning signs well before the officers were criminally charged.

Lake Worth Beach community members decried an immigration operation in their city, as 25 to 30 federal agents and Florida law enforcement officers surrounded a bakery to arrest a single man. The man's children watched outside before he turned himself in to immigration officers. It comes as the city has been under siege by federal and state immigration efforts in the past week — part of a national push by ICE and the Trump administration.

Roiling community frustration over heavy immigration enforcement in Lake Worth Beach bubbled to the surface last week, as dozens of residents protested federal agents and Florida state troopers who swarmed a local bakery to arrest a single man.