Surfside

A year after 98 people were killed in the Surfside condominium collapse, family members and the community honored those lost in the tragedy at a memorial service Friday.

A judge has given final approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium. Ninety-eight people died when the 12-story Champlain Towers South suddenly collapsed. It was one of the deadliest building failures in U.S. history. The decision by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman on Thursday comes one day before...

Rescue workers who were part of the initial search and rescue efforts at the site after the June 24, 2021, collapse heard the woman’s voice coming from the building’s ruins but her identity has remained uncertain.

The pool of funds intended to compensate victims of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium will increase to more than $1 billion, attorneys Wednesday told the judge overseeing the resulting class action lawsuit.

There’s currently a hole in the beachfront skyline where the 12-story building once stood, as the property remains the subject of ongoing court hearings.

Commissioners in Surfside, Florida, have rejected a proposal to trade public land to the eventual buyer of the condominium collapse site.

A fourth suspect has been arrested in connection with a scheme to steal the identities of victims of the Surfside condominium collapse. Nelson Ronaldo Garcia-Medina, 20, was arrested Wednesday on charges of fraudulent use or possession of personal identification, organized fraud, fraudulent use of a deceased person’s information, and unlawful use of a communications device, according to an arrest report….

Multiple arrests have been made in the identity theft cases that targeted victims of the Surfside condominium collapse, authorities said. At a news conference Wednesday, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said three “cyber grave robbers” targeted at least seven of the collapse victims, including five who were killed. Reports of identity theft cases began popping up just days after…

A private bidder is willing to offer up to $120 million to purchase the Miami-area oceanfront property where the collapsed Champlain Towers South building once stood.

Authorities in Surfside, Fla., released released police body camera footage on Tuesday that shows the initial emergency response to the condominium collapse that left 98 people dead.

People can be heard screaming and yelling for help amid rubble in newly released police body camera footage that shows the initial emergency response to the Surfside condominium collapse.

Building officials make recommendations to bring properties up to code and owners argue against them, typically asking for more time to comply.

Ikey Hedaya is still waiting for closure almost a month after the Surfside condo collapse.

It’s time to go. Everyone who lives at the Regent Palace condominium saw the destruction at Champlain Towers, less than six blocks away, and they don’t need to be forced out. They’re leaving or they’ve already left, voluntarily.

The task in Surfside is far from complete, and the work of clearing rubble and retrieving human remains at the Champlain Towers South collapse site will go on for another month, according to town leaders.

The teenager who was pulled from the rubble of the collapsed Surfside condominium was reunited with the first responders who helped rescue him

Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Surfside condominium building collapsed in the middle of the night show disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster. “Oh my God! The whole building collapsed!” one caller told a dispatcher at the Miami-Dade Police Department, which released the recordings Wednesday from the June 24 collapse of Champlain Towers South…

The death toll in the Surfside condominium collapse climbed to 95 Tuesday as officials said more than a dozen others could still be missing in the rubble. At a news conference Tuesday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 14 people remain potentially unaccounted for in the June 24 collapse of Champlain Towers South, an oceanside condo building in Surfside….

Even as crews are continuing their search for the last remaining souls that perished in the collapse of condominium town in Surfside, Florida, questions are swirling across the community about what to do with the property

Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida said they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as the death toll continued to rise closer to 100.