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One by one, 98 names were read aloud early Wednesday morning as families, survivors, first responders and community members gathered in Surfside to honor the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse, one of the deadliest building failures in U.S. history.
Nearly five years after the collapse of a Surfside condo tower that killed 98 people, federal investigators have released their findings on what caused the deadly incident.
A 50-year-old man stands accused of attacking men at the beach on Wednesday in Surfside, records show.
The results are in from a special election in Surfside as the beachfront Miami-Dade town elected its next mayor.
A judge agreed Monday to extend the mail-in ballot return deadline for Tuesday’s runoff election for Surfside mayor.
Security measures in South Florida are being heightened at local places of worship as many around the world celebrate Passover.
Surfside voters headed to the polls Tuesday to vote in the town’s highly-contested mayoral race.
Miami-Dade County’s Surfside residents have a new billionaire neighbor on Collins Avenue.
There is an increased visibility in law enforcement around several Jewish places of worship in South Florida.
A rabbi gave a personal prayer on Wednesday in front of rubble that was salvaged from the 2021 Surfside building collapse as families and leaders continue working toward a permanent memorial.
A man from the Chicago area who’s apparently notorious for traveling the country to sell counterfeit watches took his scam to South Florida in 2025, authorities said. One year later, he’s now back to face a fraud charge.
A man was arrested over the weekend in Surfside after allegedly flashing a gun during a road rage incident.
Local 10 News got an inside look Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a rare South Florida visit at the Shul of Bal Harbour in Surfside amid tight security and large crowds.
Four people were hospitalized after a multi-vehicle crash in Surfside on Thursday night, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Federal scientists investigating the 2021 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside that killed 98 people say they are zeroing in on what initiated the tragedy.
Newly released body camera footage shows Surfside police taking an accused serial thief into custody.
A small group gathered at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday morning at Veterans Park in Surfside to remember the 98 people who lost their lives on this day four years ago in the Champlain Towers collapse.
Surfside police arrested a man they described as a serial shoplifter Sunday.
The Surfside post office branch will close temporarily next month, as the U.S. Postal Service looks for a new location.
Aileen Flory was having dinner with her family back in early March.
Elections were held Tuesday in three Miami-Dade County municipalities – Miami Springs, Surfside and Bay Harbor Islands.
A 35-year-old man’s behavior with a Chucky doll was disturbing enough that police officers recently arrested him in Surfside.
The Surfside City Commission is expected to make a final review of a new memorial for the 98 people who died in the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South.
Plans for a new memorial in Surfside are coming to light.
Surfside residents voiced their concerns at a town commission meeting on Tuesday night.
Residents of Surfside were caught off guard by new findings that several buildings in the coastal town are sinking.
Surfside Police Department Chief Wayne Holbrook, who took over from a chief who lasted less than a year on the job before resigning, called it quits himself Thursday — after lasting less than a month as the turbulent town’s top cop.
Police are searching for a minor who they say is behind a string of high-end car thefts out of Miami-Dade County.
Surfside’s new police chief is speaking to Local 10 News in the wake of the arrest of a suspect in a “series of thefts” — and the wake of his ascension to the position, which came after the town’s police chief resigned after mere months on the job amid drama between the mayor and the police union.
Three people were injured Friday morning at a high-rise building in Surfside where construction work was being done, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed.
About five months after body camera video was released showing Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett interrupting a town police officer during a traffic stop, another clip has surfaced of the mayor involving himself in police activity.
Deadlines are looming for hundreds of thousands of South Florida condominium owners. Skyrocketing association fees, a result of the 2021 Surfside collapse, are about to come due.
There has been an update in the investigation into the Surfside condo collapse that occurred three years ago.
Police in Surfside are looking into several suspicious incidents after residents said they believed a prowler was casing their homes.
Federal investigators of the building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside announced they expect to release their report in 2026, not next year as planned.
A recently installed gate on a public road is causing a stir in Surfside.
In the last month, people driving in Surfside have started seeing new automated gates and signs that say you need a sticker to get through.
A South Florida woman is back home after being struck by a vehicle on the Fourth of July.
Police said they arrested an unlicensed driver who struck and critically injured a woman following a Fourth of July fireworks show in Surfside.
It’s been three years since the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South. The push for a permanent memorial persists.
At 91 years old, Esther Gorfinkel remembers everything that happened on June 24, 2021, including the man who carried her out of Champlain Towers when the building collapsed.
Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett has raised some questions after posting a video of himself interrupting a police officer’s traffic stop.
In a letter addressed to the town’s police chief, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett is blasting a police officer for what he calls a “dismissive posture” towards supermodel Gisele Bundchen during a traffic stop Wednesday.
Local 10 News has obtained body-worn camera video showing supermodel Gisele Bundchen being pulled over by Surfside police Wednesday.
Shlomo Danzinger — who recently lost his reelection in Surfside — plans to run against Miami-Dade Mayor Daniela Levine Cava.
Members of the Surfside Police Department showed a united front during a town commission meeting on Thursday.
There are quite a few changes going on at Surfside City Hall.
Miami-Dade prosecutors formally dropped all charges against Joshua Epstein on Monday.
As Local 10 News exclusively reported Thursday, Surfside is getting a new police chief after the abrupt resignation of Chief Antonio Marciante amid a swirl of political controversy.
Local 10 News has learned that Miami-Dade prosecutors are set to drop charges against Surfside activist Joshua Epstein — and that’s not the only significant development in the small Miami-Dade island town that’s seen a significant amount of political drama and intrigue.
Newly elected Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said he is losing his town’s attorney.
Surfside voters elected the man who will be mayor for the next two years on Tuesday. They chose between two businessmen who had done the job before: Shlomo Danzinger and Charles Burkett. Most voted for Burkett, who was the mayor when a building collapsed, killing 98 people in 2021.
With Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee and Democrats not holding a presidential primary in Florida in 2024, local races will be the most consequential items on the ballot in Tuesday’s Florida elections.
In many ways, Surfside is a microcosm of South Florida cities, featuring the same issues, like development, traffic, rising flood waters and quality of life.
Surfside Police Chief Antonio Marciante spoke to Local 10 News on Tuesday about the arrest of Joshua Epstein, the son of former commissioner Eliana Salzhauer.
Former Surfside Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer says her son’s arrest after being accused of battering a current commissioner after a meeting Wednesday was politically motivated.
Surfside politics took a strange turn this week. Commissioner Jeffrey Rose, the town’s vice mayor, accused former Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer’s son Joshua Epstein of battery on Wednesday.
Residents of Surfside will soon hit the polls to decide the town's next mayor.
Local 10 News obtained exclusive body camera video Thursday of a police pursuit that ended with the takedown and arrest of a 16-year-old boy accused of driving a stolen vehicle in Surfside.
Police officers took a man into custody Monday afternoon following a door-to-door search in Surfside.
Voters in Surfside will cast their ballots on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
Voters in Miami-Dade County headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in various races, including in the cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah, Surfside and Homestead.
A physician assistant went to Israel on vacation, but when war broke out over the weekend, things changed drastically. Instead of fleeing the country, she stayed behind to volunteer at a Tel Aviv hospital, helping to treat patients.
In Miami-Dade County, police officers have been working with the private security that synagogues have hired after the Hamas attack in Israel.
Local 10 News obtained exclusive video Tuesday of a pair of brazen thieves attempting to steal a truck in Bay Harbor Islands last month.
Surfside Mayor Shlomo Danzinger is defending a controversial vote to move forward on a redevelopment of the Surfside condo collapse site.
Surfside commissioners voted overnight to approve the development plan for the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse.
Following an outcry from families who lost loved ones in the Surfside building collapse over DAMAC Properties' plan to place a loading zone and trash pick-up along 88th Street, the developer on Tuesday said it has amended its plans.
Surfside’s mayor faced a possible public reprimand over his use of what a proposed resolution describes as a “racist remark” directed towards a Hispanic commissioner, however commissioners voted early Wednesday morning not to censure Mayor Shlomo Danzinger.
There are concerns in Surfside over what will happen to a memorial near the site of the Champlain Towers South condo collapse.
In the footprint of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, where 98 souls lost their lives when a portion of the condominium building suddenly collapsed in the middle of the night, are stories of lives cut short and of families shattered.
Saturday marks two years since the Champlain Towers South collapsed in Surfside, killing 98 people.
The federal investigators who are looking into the cause of the Champlain Towers South collapse released a preliminary report on Thursday that could have implications for another building. '
Nearly two years after one of the deadliest building collapses in U.S. history, design plans have been revealed for what may come next on the site in Surfside.
Federal investigators who are searching for answers about what caused the 12-story Champlain Towers South building to collapse — killing 98 people on June 24, 2021, in Surfside — recently took over a second larger warehouse to store evidence.
Police body camera video has been released after a shooting scare at a Flanigan's restaurant.
Miami-Dade Judge Michael Hanzman gave his approval on where the $2 to 3 million that was left over in a compensation settlement should go after the Champlain Tower South in Surfside collapsed, leaving families and loved ones heartbroken.
A woman who once ran to be a commissioner in the Town of Surfside is now facing a capital murder charge.
A commission meeting in the Town of Surfside got extremely heated on Tuesday night.
Surfside’s police chief, manager, and assistant manager abruptly resigned as the town is still waiting for the results of a federal investigation into the building collapse that killed 98 people last year.
A suspected migrant landing received the attention of Border Patrol on Tuesday night.
A crane barge capsized and partially sank into the bay overnight in Surfside, hours before the town’s Paddletopia event.
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady may have been preparing to co-parent in Miami-Dade County before announcing their divorce.
A battle is brewing on the shores of Surfside and it's all over beach chairs.
Surfside families are expected to be back in court on Monday.
Surfside resident Camilo Pino is deeply concerned over a proposal by the town's vice mayor to change policy that currently limits that amount of chairs on the beach.
A gallery in the Design District opened an exhibit Friday showing works that were inspired by the Surfside building collapse.
Friday evening, an intimate gathering on the beach, near the collapse site in Surfside was organized by Michael Noriega, whose grandmother died last year.
She found a feather at the site of the Champlain Towers South as she came to pay her respects one year later. Sharon Abadi said she knew it was from her friend.
A private memorial happening at the exact time the Champlain Towers South collapsed as loved ones still grieve for those lost.