Key West Island News
Key West Island News connects Key West residents and friends of the island, fosters our One Human Family culture and advances understanding of shared goals for our island community
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What's up in Florida?
Get the latest from Florida’s trusted news organizations. Key West Island News integrates RRS and live Facebook feeds from credible sources like the Miami Herald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Florida Politics.
What do you want to do?
There’s always something to do in Key West. But how to know what’s happening today? Key West Island News integrates RRS and live Facebook feeds from the best sources for what-to-do events.
From the editor | LGC Says
Linda Grist Cunningham continues her four decades of reporting and writing in her columns from Key West. She explores local and national news and the political decisions that affect our lives, property investments and future of the Florida Keys. Her collection of Dear Connor columns is written for her grandson, Connor. Oh, and, she’ll take the occasional side trip to Key West wacky.
Key West jobs openings go begging; would $30 an hour fill them?
Here's a math word problem for you: If the median price of a house is $799,000, how much does the minimum hourly rate of pay need to be to live in Key West? Let me save you the trouble of finding a calculator. You and your partner both need to make $26.90 an hour,...
Key West is never going to be “post-Covid-19,” so let’s figure out our “next life”
Clueless Key West girl. I did it again. Hopped on an elevator in Miami Tuesday sans mask. Oblivious of naked face until a mom and her little ones, all masked, even the toddlers, stopped and looked at me funny. I did that goofy thing of pulling up my shirt, got off and...
Can a million bucks buy control of Key West’s voters and the cruise ship business?
Darn it. I wish I had friends like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The kind with a million bucks in spare change handed over for whatever cool things I wanted to do (like run for president). The kind who with an apparently straight face would say "hey, no strings...
Two weeks off the rock | Lessons learned, tales to tell
As my dad would say back in olden times, "Lord willing and the creek don't rise," by the time you're reading this I'll be sitting on my front porch behind the picket fence and telling tall tales about what it's like out there in the big...
Leaving the island for the first time since Covid? It’ll be OK. I promise
Flying out of Key West last week was a bit like crawling out of a cave, blinking in the sunshine and wishing I could scurry to safety. The last time I left the island (other than three, day trips to Miami for health care stuff and a couple junkets to Stock Island) was...
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About KWIN
Key West Island News
Who we are: We are a Key West-owned digital news and information company that uses a community-support model to sustain our news, information and connections mission. Our funding comes from our local and off-island subscribers, select advertisers and investors. We are governed by an advisory board comprising residents and journalism and community-building professionals. Editor and publisher Linda Grist Cunningham owns KeyWestWatch Media LLC, which publishes Key West Island News
What we do: We do original reporting and aggregate information from trusted news sources in Key West, the Keys and the state of Florida. We choose our trusted sources carefully to ensure accuracy and useful information.
Why we do it: We believe Key West needs a comprehensive, trusted source of news and information — a single place where residents and friends of Key West can find what they need to know each day.
What’s important to us: The topics shape our coverage: The Key West mystique; economic development; environmental protection; not-for-profits, arts and entertainment; small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Martha Hubbard
“Key West is an amazing canvas”
Key West chef and photographer Martha Hubbard walks the island each morning. For years she has shared with her social media friends a photo or two to start the day. Now she shares her photographs exclusively with Key West Island News. From pounding waves off the White Street pier to a Royal Poinciana bursting red, Martha’s photos are a stunning reminder that we live in a canvas made new every day.
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Contemporary artisan ceramics and photographs crafted in Key West | Follow the latest news from our gallery! We love sharing what we’re doing in the White Street gallery — and we welcome you to stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.
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Today's Best of Key West
The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden: The only frost-free botanical garden in the continental United States. The Garden stresses the importance of native plants and species in a natural conservation habitat.
Need more to do?
Many of our favorite Key West places-to-visit post their events and specials on their Facebook pages. So, if you're looking for even more to do, here are our recommendations. (PS: These are our favorites. No one pays us to promote them.)