The Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to defer a request for the Florida Department of Transportation to open the bridge at Northwest 154th Street in Miami Lakes. The postponement will delay county action for two weeks until its next meeting on March 15. Both Hialeah Mayor Steve Bovo and Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid addressed commissioners during their meeting. The delay, which the commission approved in a...

     As Oak Lane curves toward Commerce Parkway in Miami Lakes Business Park West, drivers are met with the BankUnited campus and its five buildings that comprise the bank’s national headquarters.      The area stretching from Northwest 79th Court to Northwest 148th Street also includes Miami Lakes KinderCare; Alorica, a call center for business solutions and a Miami-Dade County Department of...

     The TD Ready Challenge awarded a $1 million grant to The Education Fund, a non-profit in Miami Lakes which supports public school teachers and students in Miami-Dade County.      The Education Fund said it will put the money toward creating a new math curriculum to be taught at 51 elementary schools in the county that use food forests and gardens to teach science and provide vegetables to students and...

Natalie Bieule Pembroke Pines Paralympian, Team USA      “I think people do speed, I think there is a bit of careless driving,” Natalie Bieule said. “I think it is important that they aren’t respecting the 45 [mph] then maybe by putting at 25 [mph] they’ll start going 45.      My parents live in Royal Oaks. There’s a couple of cars that go speeding down...

     Students from the Bob Graham Education Center impressed judges during winter robotics competitions.       The Miami Lakes school has six robotics teams and many of the middle school students are new to the world of robotics contests said Marilyn Dieppa, the school’s STEM teacher and team coach.       Three of the teams took home awards this season, ahead of the state...