As South Dade continues to grow, conversations about education are becoming increasingly important to the community's future.
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The South Dade Buccaneers continued their late-season turnaround Saturday, October 17, defeating the Miami Northwestern Bulls 30–16 in a Greater Miami Athletic Conference matchup.
Arts Access Miami is bringing its Youth Music Festival back to Harris Field Park on March 13, and applications for performers, vendors and partners are open through December 10, 2026.
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Naranja Grand, a $115 million, 320-unit affordable housing community along SW 147th Avenue, formally opened Sept. 14 where an abandoned trailer park once stood. About 120 apartments serve seniors 55 and older and roughly 200 serve families.
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Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, communities across South Dade are preparing to pause and remember. Observances are planned at Homestead Air Reserve Base, South Dade Senior High School, Butterfly Cooperative School and Miami Dade College's Kendall Campus, in a community shaped by military service and first responders. The anniversary also carries a local connection through Florida Task Force 1, the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue team that deployed to Ground Zero.
With baseball nearing postseason, a look back at Homestead's turn as "The Baseball City" — English Park and the Tomato Growers' 37-3 season in 1921, the St. Louis Cardinals' farm clubs at Harris Field beginning in 1961, and the free-agent camp at the Homestead Sports Complex during the 1995 MLB strike. Drawn from Bob Jensen's 2012 article.
South Dade Chamber Executive Director Lisa Albizu-Vazquez writes about meeting newly appointed Miami-Dade schools Superintendent Rafael Villalobos, a district that opened the year with nearly 19,000 fewer students, and why classroom outcomes are workforce and economic-development outcomes for South Dade.
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South Dade families will see different school meal options beginning with the 2026–27 academic year as Miami-Dade County Public Schools moves …
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South Dade students will have new opportunities to pursue careers in healthcare before graduating from high school.
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools will soon have a new arts conservatory.