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Vero scrambles as state DOGE joins the fray

Letters sent to all of Florida’s cities, towns and counties last week by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly formed ...

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Missed red flag: Accounting firm’s bill for audit help was way over budget

What, exactly, were the 26 City of Vero Beach Finance Department employees doing while state deadlines to file ...

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Boutique subdivision among 4 projects in booming South Beach

South Beach, which developer Rory O’Dare calls “the most undervalued neighborhood” on the island, is in the midst ...

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Vero kept in limbo as Clearpath seeks new money partner

Three weeks after Clearpath Services founder Randy Lloyd publicly revealed the development group’s financial partner had withdrawn from ...

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Piper takes cautious approach to potential impact of new tariffs

A Piper Aircraft spokesperson said last week it was too soon to predict how much the Vero Beach-based ...

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For Hospital District, unanswered questions on sober home abound

The local Hospital District finally had its first substantive, probing discussion about its planned women’s sober home last ...

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County selects first batch of environmentally sensitive properties to purchase and preserve

The County Commission last week identified 560 acres of environmentally sensitive land that it hopes to buy for ...

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Audit fallout: Apathy reigns on Vero Council

A month after the stunning news broke that Vero Beach had failed to complete and file its 2022-23 ...

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Residents shout down new A1A sidewalk, bike lane plans

Florida Department of Transportation officials last week got an earful from a loud crowd of South Beach residents ...

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An unbreakable bond: Sorensen family takes lead in St. Ed’s 60th anniversary celebration

Six decades after a 24-year-old Dale Sorensen arrived in Vero to help found an Episcopalian school for the ...

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Appeals court backs Cleveland Clinic’s motion to dismiss wrongful death suit

Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital has prevailed in appealing a lower court ruling, effectively ending a negligence lawsuit ...

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City’s financial disarray extends far beyond audit

Vero Beach police paychecks bouncing and new city retirees going months without pension checks now seem to be ...