32963 News

Long-term care’s lonely lockdown extends to Sept. 5

As Florida’s governor focuses on reopening schools, he has also quietly extended the ban on visitors to long-term ...

32963 News

Vero will rely on reserves to meet city’s budget needs

Every municipal budget in the Florida is in flux as the local-share numbers for sales tax and gas ...

32963 News

St. Edward’s releases tentative August reopening plan

Amid an escalating pandemic, Stuart Hirstein took his first action as incoming head of St. Edward’s School, announcing ...

32963 News

New self-administered COVID-19 swab tests hold promise for wide-scale testing at home

This week, as lines lengthen at COVID-19 testing sites, Florida’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities begin state-mandated, ...

32963 News

More Ocean Drive shops requiring customers to wear masks

With the city and county so far failing to impose mandatory mask orders on the public, many Ocean ...

32963 News

Vero again seeks bed-tax money to help fund city lifeguards

As local governments look at budget priorities this year, the City of Vero Beach plans to once again ...

32963 News

Some county first responders testing positive for Covid-19

It’s been another record week for Indian River County and the barrier island, and not just because of ...

32963 News

‘Mayor of the Airwaves’ loses local radio outlet

Longtime local radio host Rhett Palmer’s reign as Vero Beach’s self-proclaimed “Mayor of the Airwaves” came to a ...

32963 News

Councilman finds contact tracing is another farce

Vero Beach City Councilman Rey Neville began asking the County Health Department months ago for specifics about how ...

32963 News

Local Cleveland Clinic hospital president sees ‘critical’ need for a mask mandate

In early April, experts were frantically trying to model when the COVID-19 pandemic would peak. Mid-April? Early May? ...

32963 News

Traditional classrooms or virtual school? Family decisions loom

Public school students have until Friday to decide whether to return to school on Aug. 10, despite the ...

32963 News

Did nursing tech bring COVID-19 into hospital ER?

If Ginger Burkeen’s husband Brian wasn’t up for sentencing on a felony grand theft conviction for stealing a ...