Florida gas prices surpass $4 with no relief in sight

Sky High Gas Prices — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Laura Gangi Pond Drivers in the Sunshine State and across the U.S. continue to feel the effects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine at the pump. On Monday morning, the average price of gasoline was $4.007 per gallon in Florida. This is the most expensive it

Veza Sur Brewing Co. is bringing all the buenas vibras for 305 Day with Carnaval!

Image by: Veza Sur Brewing Co. March 5th is officially 305 day and our favorite brewery in Wynwood knows just how to celebrate: by bringing la rumba to Miami with Carnaval’s return! The brewery that’s known for celebrating its Latin American roots will host its very own Carnaval on Saturday, March 5th! Veza Sur will

Florida teen who tracked Elon Musk’s plane is now tracking Russian billionaire’s jets

Russian Jets — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Dimitrije Ostojic For Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX and chief executive of Tesla, traveling by private jet might not be such a private endeavor anymore, and now it won’t be for Russian billionaires either. A 19-year-old student from the University of Central Florida who went viral for

How South Florida may be impacted by Russian sanctions

Vladimir Putin at Russian Conference — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Sasa Dzambic Photography After several weeks of growing tensions, nearly 200,000 Russian troops assembled at Ukraine’s border and began a broad military offensive, with world leaders warning that this series of attacks could lead to one of the biggest conflicts Europe has seen since World War

Florida legislature plans to pass first law protecting outdoor workers from heat exposure

Farm Workers Face Heat Exposure in Agriculture Field — Courtesy: Shutterstock — AFZAL KHAN MAHEEN We rarely take time to think about those who built the roof over our heads and picked the fresh produce we enjoy at the table. Field workers work hard in Florida’s unbearable heat to provide us with our most basic

Florida home to be auctioned as NFT has attracted over 7,000 potential bidders

NFT (Non-Fungible Token) — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Rokas Tenys Two superheated markets, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and real estate, have collided in what could be one of the first home auctions as an NFT. The Gulfport, Florida, house will be auctioned on Thursday with a starting price of $650,000. The home will be auctioned through a

Florida produces the smallest orange crop in over 75 years

Florida Orange Crop — Courtesy: Shutterstock — VAlekStudio The next family favorite grocery store item shoppers could see skyrocketing in price is Florida orange juice. A cold snap in the Sunshine State had the potential to do extreme damage to farms across Central Florida over the weekend. The low temperatures, close to freezing, are rare

New laws could make craft beer much easier to find in Florida

Craft Beer Pour — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Antov Bannov Craft breweries are heading to Tallahassee to fight for new laws that could make your favorite beers easy to find. Among other requests, they want to be allowed to sell their beer wherever they’d like. Currently, they have to go through a distributor. Matthew Dahm of

Brightline has begun Central Florida test runs before high-speed trains start from Orlando to Miami

Brightline Train — Courtesy: Shutterstock — EQRoy The first Brightline train entered Brevard County for a test run on Tuesday between South Florida and the Orlando airport. The train and crew will conduct dry runs across the 130-mile Florida east coast railway corridor.  There weren’t any passengers just yet, but onlookers looked extremely intrigued by

IKEA buys hurricane-damaged land in Florida to plant forests

IKEA Store — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Graeme Dawes Ingka Group, owner of IKEA furniture stores worldwide, has bought more land in the U.S. as part of a long-term goal and commitment to handle forest management responsibly. Ingka Group will plant seedlings of mainly longleaf pine on the 3,264 acres of land near Florida’s Apalachicola River