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UF researchers are considering promoting the invasive Asian swamp eel as a food source and may publish a tip sheet on how to catch and cook it (desliming required); the eel has been found in the Loxahatchee Refuge west of Boynton Beach and threatens local wetlands.

Florida's 2026 campaign season included local visits to Boynton Beach, where Angie Nixon and Jose Javier Rodriguez spoke at St. John Missionary Baptist Church on Sept.

28 as candidates campaigned ahead of the midterm election.

Habitat for Humanity held its 40th Anniversary Dream Builders' Ball on Oct.

9 at The Breakers and raised $1.2 million for local affordable housing. Habitat has built 452 homes and repaired 834, helping 1,286 families, and the new funds will support more local homeownership.

Heavy flash flooding dropped up to a foot of rain in Palm Beach and Okeechobee counties on Sunday, prompting an Okeechobee shelter and road closures at SR 70, US 441 and Haverhill/Okeechobee, and a Flash Flood Watch remains in effect through tonight so motorists should avoid flooded routes.

Daylight saving time ends today; set clocks back one hour (2 a.m.), and federal schedules list the spring-forward and fall-back dates through 2036 so most devices will update automatically.

The Bungalow Bar and Grill and Pig Sty BBQ will close as of Nov.

1 because the property owner no longer wants an eatery or live music venue there, so Oct. 31 will be their last night at 511 Northeast Fourth St., one block west of Federal Highway.

A Palm Beach County breast cancer survivor says a routine mammogram at HCA Florida JFK Hospital Breast Center in Lake Worth Beach found her cancer after she avoided screening for nearly a decade, and she urges women to get annual 2D + 3D mammography starting at age 40.

Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services is preparing for Project Thanksgiving to pack and deliver meals and will host a Thanksgiving Day gathering for about 600 older adults at its West Boca campus, while Jacobson Family Food Pantry, which served 685 clients last year, seeks volunteers and donations.