Palm Coast Report

The Palm Coast City Council approved the coming fiscal year’s budget and property tax rate during a brief final hearing. Council members had resolved previous disputes by restoring funding for…

Palm Coast customers will see their rates for water, wastewater, stormwater, and garbage pick-up services increase on Oct. 1. The increases are “part of the City’s established rate structure and…

Judge J. Layne Smith, appointed to the bench by Gov. Ron DeSantis and serving in the Second Judicial Circuit, told lawyers in the courtroom he wanted to have them shot,…

Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, prominent officials and victim families displayed blatant Islamophobia by attempting to bar New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani from memorial ceremonies. The refusal to examine…

President Donald Trump utilizes strategic public opportunities to spread anti-transgender rhetoric. Research demonstrates that official communications leverage specific emotional triggers, particularly disgust and paranoia, to fabricate existential threats. These deliberate…

When Floridians vote in November on whether to raise homestead exemptions through Amendment 3, they may also be voting to shift more of the property tax burden onto renters, a…

A mediation session in the civil case of former Flagler County Engineer Faith al-Khatib’s two-year-old lawsuit against her former employer is scheduled for Oct. 1. Failing that, a two-week trial…

Edwin Guerrero received a nearly 10-year federal prison sentence for sending graphic antisemitic threats to U.S. Rep. Randy Fine when he was a Florida legislator. The defense highlighted a difficult…

Government investigators released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases…

The final $1 increase in the state’s voter-approved minimum wage will also take effect Sept. 30, pushing it up to $15 per hour. It’s part of the 2020 constitutional amendment…

The Palm Coast Planning Board Tuesday evening recommended on a 6-1 vote approval of a reconfigured plan for a 544-unit housing development called Magnolia Terrace on over 1,000 acres at…

Trump’s war against Iran is driving diesel prices to record highs across America, increasing expenses for farming, trucking, public transit, and home heating. Lawmakers and Trump contemplate a diesel export…

Flagler Beach commissioners unanimously approved a 13 percent water and sewer rate increase to fund a new sewer plant and prevent severe utility reserve depletion. The decision mirrors past Palm…

Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered the American and Florida flags to be flown at half-staff on public grounds across the state Saturday in honor of Alice Baker, the former Flagler…