After the Miami-Dade County Elections Department performed a machine recount of ballots from the April 9 special election, the two frontrunners will stay in the race for vacant town council Seat 6.      Just 10.52% of 20,004 eligible voters chose among five candidates in the special election and no one won more than 50%, prompting a run-off election.      On the ballot on April 30 are Esther...

The Graham Companies shared photos from the life of Bob Graham. The former state legislator, governor and U.S. senator who was a member of Miami Lakes' founding family died Tuesday in Gainesville, Fla. of natural causes. He was 87.

Ahead of the upcoming runoff election, Miami Lakes town council candidates Esther Colon and Bryan Morera will present their campaign positions during a forum at Town Hall on April 25. Former Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas will be the moderator and will accept questions for candidates from residents via email beforehand or during the event. Morera, 32, and Colon, 70, won first and second place respectively in the April 9 special...

President Joe Biden's statement about Bob Graham was posted on the White House website: "Bob Graham was a colleague, friend, and devoted Floridian whose nearly 50 years of service to his beloved home state and to our country have made America a safer and stronger nation.   Bob chose a life of service, working his way up from state legislator, to governor, senator, and presidential candidate. He and I served together...

Bob Graham, one of the patriarchs of Miami Lakes and someone who spent nearly 40 years representing Floridians as a member of the state legislature, then as Governor and eventually as a U.S. Senator, died Tuesday of natural causes in Gainesville, Fla., his family announced. He was 87. Graham’s time in politics began in earnest when he was first elected to the Florida Legislature in 1966. It was essentially uninterrupted until he...