WLRN-FM (Miami, FL)

WLRN 91.3 FM is operated under the license of the Miami-Dade County School Board in Florida. It reaches a weekly listenership exceeding 500,000 people, spanning from Palm Beach all the way down to Key West.

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Air traffic overhaul obstacles

1 day ago | wlrn.org | Joel Rose

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes. Copyright 2025 NPR
Florida Panthers to face the Oilers for first game of the final

2 days ago | wlrn.org | Sherrilyn Cabrera

The rematch Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers gets going with Game 1 tonight. The Oilers have home-ice advantage this time after starting the series in Florida a year ago. The Panthers went up 3-0 back then, lost three in a row and then won Game 7 to capture the first title in franchise history. The Panthers are in the final for a third consecutive season.
Litigants insist the humanitarian parole battle isn't over — just 'accelerating'

2 days ago | wlrn.org | Tim Padgett

After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last Friday that the Trump administration can, for now, end humanitarian parole for half a million migrants, immigration advocates insist the legal battle is not over — and believe it will end sooner than later, now in their favor.
Property values in Palm Beach County are still rising, but not as quickly

3 days ago | wlrn.org | Joel Engelhardt

As experts predicted, the nearly double-digit increases in the Palm Beach County tax rolls slowed this year after a three-year ride. Property values rose 7.7% countywide, a slower increase than in the past three years when values rose 9.6% in 2024, 13.5% in 2023 and 15% in 2022. Not since the 5.6% increase in 2021 has the tax roll increase been lower.
New travel photography exhibit in West Palm Beach spotlights beauty of cultural rituals

3 days ago | wlrn.org | Wilkine Brutus

In an age where cultural practices are often seen as relics of the past, photographer and documentarian Jefferine Jean-Jacques reframes tradition as fluid, “living practice,” deeply embedded in our everyday rituals. Brooklyn-born Jean-Jacques, a Haitian-American based in West Palm Beach, told WLRN her debut travel photography exhibit, Rootwork, attempts to ground viewers in the beauty of ordinary moments while exploring cultural differences.
Fort Lauderdale airport to close two runways for overnight maintenance

4 days ago | wlrn.org | Sherrilyn Cabrera

Two runways at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport are expected to temporarily close overnight for maintenance. The airport’s North Runway will be closed between midnight and 5:30 AM starting today through Wednesday. Beginning Wednesday through Saturday, the South Runway will close from 10:30 PM to 5:30 AM. Airport officials said all planes will use whichever runway that’s open during the nightly closures.
Vandalism reported at construction site of Historic Coconut Grove Playhouse

4 days ago | wlrn.org | Sherrilyn Cabrera

There’s been two acts of vandalism at the construction site of the Historic Coconut Grove Playhouse. That’s according to Miami-Dade County officials, who are asking the public to report any suspicious activity they may have witnessed surrounding the vandalism. The two incidents occurred within 48 hours of each other on Thursday and Friday. Officials said both involved damage to the construction drainage on Charles Street. The historic playhouse is currently undergoing a major restoration project.
What Floridians can learn from Hurricane Ian recovery nearly three years later

4 days ago | wlrn.org | Jessica Meszaros

Journalist Charlie Whitehead can be found sitting in his front yard outside his motor home. The tall man with salt and pepper hair and wide, red suspenders attached to blue jeans has lived in the town of Fort Myers Beach for 40 years. And the yard is on the same lot his grandparents bought back in 1966. The property is surrounded by water with a bay that connects to the Gulf out front, and a manmade saltwater canal out back.
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, who transformed Miami and helped Jews in prison, dies at 78

4 days ago | wlrn.org | Michael Rosenwald

Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, a charismatic and visionary figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement who helped transform South Florida into a vibrant center of Jewish life and founded a national organization that supports Jews in prison and the military, died on May 3 in Miami. He was 78. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was heart failure, said Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, a spokesperson for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Why so much recent turnover for presidents at Florida's public universities?

4 days ago | wlrn.org | Meleah Lyden

Across the Sunshine State, students, staff and alumni have witnessed leadership shakeups at major public universities over the past few years. There are a dozen state universities in Florida — and half of them have or will soon have new presidents. Some of these picks have caused an uproar due to their ties to Gov. Ron DeSantis. For example, Education Commissioner Manny Díaz Jr., will become the interim president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola.