CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Last month, Amazon purchased a piece of undeveloped land in the Coral Springs corporate park for $3.5 million, property records show.

The question now is: what’s the company planning to do with the land?

Amazon has been expanding operations across South Florida as part of its efforts to get products faster to customers.

In Tamarac, the global e-commerce ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – It was sort of Coral Springs’ version of “Shark Tank.”

City officials were looking for creators, start-ups, and artists to compete for cash, prizes, and free publicity in the annual Innovate Downtown events, organized by Coral Springs Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA).

But the event is now canceled due to expenses, lack of attendance, and the ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The driver suspected of hitting a 10-year-old bicyclist with a truck in Coral Springs on Sunday and then driving off has been in touch with investigators, police said Tuesday.

The driver, whose name was not released, has provided a statement to investigators and the driver’s silver Toyota Tacoma has been seized as evidence, police said in a statement.

The boy ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Broward County schools electrician was flown to a hospital on Tuesday morning after getting accidentally electrocuted and injured at J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs.

The person, whose name was not released, suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries and was alert when flown to Broward Health North, according to the school district and ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Trash workers missing entire Coral Springs neighborhoods on pickup days. Garbage left behind on lawns and strewn in the streets after trash trucks pull off.

These are complaints Coral Springs officials have been receiving for weeks from angry city residents about the city’s trash collector Waste Pro, which is paid $2.5 million in this year’s city ...

PARKLAND, FL- The City of Parkland will begin the interview process for a new BSO-Parkland District Chief beginning the week of August 2nd.

The interviews for the position are to replace Captain Chris Mulligan who will be retiring.

According to the City of Parkland, "in accordance with the contractual agreement the City has with BSO, the Sheriff’s Office has provided ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Days after the Broward County School Board made masks mandatory when students return to schools next month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he plans to sign an executive order that would block the requirement.

The order, he said, would allow parents or guardians to choose whether their children wear masks in schools.

His announcement was in response to ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – As students at Forest Glen Middle School in Coral Springs return to classrooms on Aug. 18, the new principal, Melissa Gurreonero, will be walking the campus, offering the usual first-day pleasantries.

But the veteran educator will also be looking for signs of students’ emotional wellbeing.

Like at other schools, Gurreonero and her staff will have the ...

Editor’s Note: A 20-year-old Coral Springs resident Chansen Savakinus is fighting cancer for the third time in his young life. His mother, Destiny Haggett, is chronicling the experience in a series of articles for TAPinto Coral Springs.

This is part six.

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – In cancer treatment, there are good days and bad days. Achievements and setbacks.

The past two weeks my ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The emergency department at Coral Springs Animal Hospital was nearing full capacity on Tuesday as Dr. Macy Sheehan finished up removing a cyst from a dog, just as another sick dog was rolled in for treatment.

Next to her, Dr. Sara Salomon checked on a different dog with a breathing tube in its nose, then rushed over to care for yet another pet having trouble ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The demand for free food hasn’t changed much during the pandemic at the weekly food distributions at Chabad of Coral Springs.

But started this week, the Jewish religious and educational center at 3925 N. University Drive is cutting back the distributions to every other week, said Rabbi Avraham Friedman, the center’s executive director.

The reason: ...

PARKLAND, FL- "Guac's Remarkable Race" is just around the corner. 

"Guacathon 2021" is organized as a "Worldwide 21,000 Kilometer Fitness Challenge for fair gun laws in America." It's also a celebration of the birthday and life of Parkland resident Joaquin Oliver, who lost his life in the tragic Stoneman Douglas shooting of ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – After three days of running, swimming, lifting, and walking in a handstand, a Coral Springs chiropractor is now the world’s 12th fittest man – that is, in his age range in the world of CrossFit.

Justin Brown placed this week among the top athletes in the annual international CrossFit Games held in Madison, Wisc.

The father of three -- and owner of ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – There are more than 11,000 athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics – and four of them have Coral Springs connections.

- Bruno Fratus, who is from Brazil and has been a part of Coral Springs Swim Club, according to his Wikipedia page.

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Fratus was a favorite to win a medal in the Men's 50 meter ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL-  Spiro Edgos didn't intend to get into the business of environmentally-friendly cleaning.

The businessman from Pittsburgh had worked in a number of industries before taking an interest in green cleaning. He'd spent time learning about the business from an associate in Miami, but the business had no plans to move all the way up to north Broward County to clean ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Dave Weishaus was perhaps destined to manage Tunie’s Market in Coral Springs.

As a child, Weishaus grew up going to the store with his mother who used to shop for vitamins when the store was on the east side of the city.  

He also had a childhood friend who would, years later, become the owner of the store, which opened in 1993.

Last year, some two ...