Florida’s Brightline has filed for bankruptcy protection after years of lower-than-expected revenue left it unable to repay billions it borrowed to finance the Miami-to-Orlando private railroad.

Streaming promised to fix everything, but it’s made following your favorite harder. Here’s how to do it most affordably.

Brightline, the debt-laden Florida private railroad connecting Miami to Orlando, is getting help from the federal government to build a new station and replace a 100-year-old drawbridge.

From Gaza to Kyiv, civilians describe how drones are transforming not just the battlefield but the sounds and psychology of modern conflict.

Brightline, the debt-laden Florida private railroad, tapped reserves to made a July 1 interest payment due to holders of its senior municipal bonds and corporate notes, according to people familiar wi...

‘They were really violent and like, pushing me, and like, tried to rape me,’ recounted a woman who was a high school sophomore at the time.

Investors holding Brightline Florida’s $2.2 billion of senior bonds could get as little as 44 cents on the dollar in a bankruptcy or restructuring, according to CreditSights. Holders of lower ranked d...

If finalized, the proposal would end the Biden-era restritions for four toxic PFAS compounds and give utilities two more years to comply with limits on two other compounds.

Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown on Monday was honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for her groundbreaking and impactful investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Florida’s private passenger train service saw its business grow in 2025, but not fast enough to keep up with its approaching debt requirements. Brightline’s annual report shows while ridership and rev...

Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of tr...

State and federal authorities are trying to learn more about reports that an elementary school was built atop a sludge field coated with contaminated waste.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

The U.S.-based companies, Planet Labs and Vantor, say they were not instructed by any government to restrict image access.

Yale researchers find contamination on SC farmland, the latest in the unfolding saga of forever chemical pollution in the Palmetto State

State senator says the reporting on Brightline deaths underscores the need for sensors that would warn train crews when tracks aren’t clear.

Episode 6 of WLRN/Miami Herald’s Killer Train podcast explores Brightline’s future, safety plans and taxpayer costs to secure Florida railroad crossings.

A full accounting, for the first time, of who died in Brightline accidents in Florida.

Brightline Trains Florida LLC — the struggling private rail line connecting Orlando to Miami — was downgraded five notches by S&P Global Ratings, citing a “material deviation” from growth expectat...

Brightline is carrying more passengers throughout its service territory, but ticket revenue from its South Florida-only service remains lower than it was a year ago. The company also updated lenders t...

Rules going into effect Jan. 1 about how to design safe rail crossings only apply to future projects.

“It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.

Julie K. Brown explains what — and who — to look out for in the files, scheduled to be released Friday by the Department of Justice.

A former Brightline conductor is suing the company after he says repeated exposure to traumatic incidents led to PTSD diagnosis.

Policy drops, lawsuits and shutdowns spotlight NFIP vulnerabilities; experts call for subsidies, longer authorizations and reforms to protect Florida homeowners and markets.

Florida barrier islands host 765,000+ residents as development raises hurricane, erosion and insurance risks while taxpayers fund repeated beach restorations.

“You can’t accept him,” she told her daughter. “But I do.”

A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found the DeSantis’ administration’s use of public money to fund a campaign against marijuana and abortion access was more sprawling than previously known.

“They don’t want their children to play with my child because he is a child of a rape. When people say that, it makes me cry.”

Haiti’s extreme and alarming violence is disproportionately affecting women and girls, who are part of a generation lost.

Experts urge mandatory sensors and independent monitoring after studies show Sunny Isles Beach condos are sinking beyond predictions due to nearby construction.

Property owners and buyers need more information on climate dangers. But pinpointing them is hard, even for experts.

Overcrowded orbits are making astronomers’ jobs harder.

The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.

Unseen forces are at work under the gleaming towers lining barrier islands like Sunny Isles Beach.

At least a handful of towers have sunk as much as two to three times more than expected, the Miami Herald found in a months-long analysis of dozens of engineering reports covering nearly every building along the city’s multibillion-dollar skyline.