Nancy Klingener
Nancy Klingener covers the Florida Keys for WLRN. Since moving to South Florida in 1989, she has worked for the Miami Herald, Solares Hill newspaper and the Monroe County Public Library.
She is a Spring 2014 graduate of the Transom Story Workshop. She is on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar.
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The hotel industry in the Florida Keys normally leads the state in occupancy and room rates this time of year. But the coronavirus has changed everything. -
Monroe County is officially closed to visitors, with a checkpoint at the county line turning people away. Some in Key West say it's time to open up to... -
Big Pine Key was the epicenter for Hurricane Irma's impact on the Florida Keys back in September of 2017. The eye of the category four storm went just... -
A plan to test genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys has received approval from the federal government. -
Mainland South Florida has the most cases of COVID-19 in the state. Monroe County, to the south has far fewer cases — but it's also got a much smaller... -
Monroe County has essentially tried to self-isolate an entire island chain. The Keys shut down tourism — its primary industry — and put up a checkpoint... -
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Saturday that students in Florida public schools will not be returning to their physical campuses this school year. -
The four South Florida counties are coordinating on a plan for phased re-opening of outdoor spaces, retail and hotels. It's called the new normal... -
In Monroe County, tourism provides the primary source of jobs and sales tax revenues. So the county has been hit hard as coronavirus shut down all... -
When Monroe County put up a checkpoint to limit entry to the island chain, they thought they had an easy way to identify people who live in the Keys.
