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Offshore kayak fishing tournament yields good catches
There were a bunch of noteworthy catches in Saturday's May Madness offshore kayak fishing tournament out of Pompano Beach, including wahoo, tuna, kingfish, amberjack and grouper. In all, the 113 anglers competing in the Extreme Kayak Fishing event...
Tags: Dick's Sporting Goods Incorporated, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fishing, Plantation Park Elementary School, Everglades
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Port Everglades worker struck by cargo container
A Port Everglades worker was hospitalized after he was hit by a cargo container Sunday afternoon, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue said. The 52-year-old man was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with injuries that were not life threatening, Mike...
Tags: Lauderdale Lakes
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Floridians press for Everglades and port money
WASHINGTON – The next big phase of Everglades restoration will plug canals, build levees and create giant storage areas to guide fresh clean water through western Broward and Palm Beach counties and into the core of the famed River of Grass. The...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Everglades, Marco Rubio
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Dredge contract awarded to handle bigger ships at Miami's port
ReutersBy Zachary Fagenson MIAMI, May 16 (Reuters) - The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $180 million contract to dredge Miami's harbor to an Illinois-based company on Thursday, part of a plan to deepen the port channel to handle larger ships...Tags: Panama, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Charleston, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), U.S. Army
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Florida cargo and cruise facilities in line for a record-setting year of funding
TALLAHASSEE — Florida's seaports, including Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, are set to embark on a massive round of waterfront and transit upgrades, as the cargo and cruise facilities are in line for a record-setting year of funding from the...Tags: Politics, Cruise Ship Jobs, Suez Canal, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Tour Operations Industry
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South Florida outdoors calendar
May 17-18: Fishing hours are 7 a.m.-4 p.m. on the first day of the Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo. Weigh-in is 2-6 p.m. at the Alsdorf Boat Ramp Park on 14th Street in Pompano Beach. Fishing May 18 is 7 a.m.-noon followed by the weigh-in from noon-2 and...Tags: Miami Beach, Lifestyle and Leisure, Nova Southeastern University, Pompano Beach, Ronald McDonald House Charities
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Fort Lauderdale marina expansion won't cover costs
If the city hopes to keep living up to its moniker as the "Yachting Capital of the World," activists say it needs more places for the growing number of mega yachts to dock so they don't bypass the area and the businesses that count on them to thrive. One...
Tags: Sailing, Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Research
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Rare corals compete with beach restoration
A huge trove of rare coral discovered off the Broward County coast will complicate plans to add sand to five miles of eroded beaches. The Broward County Commission has voted to have scientists from Nova Southeastern University monitor the impact of...
Tags: Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Broward County Commission, Pompano Beach
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Embrace your inner Renoir at Port Everglades
Port Everglades needs volunteers of all ages to turn trash into art treasures. In its annual project, Keep Port Everglades Shipshape, volunteers will paint petroleum drums that have already been cleaned into decorative trash and recycling bins that... -
Fleet Week begins, but this year it's with local military
Fleet Week — the yearly spring invasion in which mighty Navy warships steam into Port Everglades to disgorge thousands of liberty-seeking sailors to area bars, beaches, malls and restaurants — begins Tuesday. Yet without any Navy...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Miami-Dade County, Armed Forces
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NextEra to sell its oil-fired power plants in Maine
ReutersBy Scott DiSavino April 30 (Reuters) - U.S. power company NextEra Energy Inc said on Tuesday its NextEra Energy Resources unit will sell its oil-fired power plants in Maine, which have a generating capacity of 796 megawatts (MW). The company decided...Tags: FPL Group, Economy, Business and Finance, Energy Resources, Energy and Resource Industries, Renewable Energy
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Convention center changes needed
For more than two decades, Broward County has tied itself in knots over building a major hotel and making other badly needed improvements at its convention center. As a result, the county has lost its competitive edge in tourism's cutthroat meetings and...Tags: Miami Beach, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, IBM, Fort Lauderdale, Tourism and Leisure
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