Florida News That Impacts You – June 24th, 2025 - Driven By Braman Motorcars
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.
- Governor DeSantis signed two bills into law aimed at providing relief to condo owners due to laws passed after the collapse of Champlain Towers South. The Condominium and Cooperative Associations law extends the reserve study requirement for one year and allows for a 2 year pause in reserve fund contributions to prioritize funding critical repairs identified in milestone inspections among other changes. The My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program law makes it easier for condo associations to obtain grants for needed repairs and upgrades to condos.
- The Department of Homeland Security has approved Attorney General James Uthmeier’s proposal to turn a Miami-Dade owned, government facility, with an airstrip adjacent to the Everglades into what he’s dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. The site has the potential to be the largest detention and deportation facility in the country. Uthmeier said the conversion can happen quickly and the facility should be operational in July.
- It'll be sunny and warm today with highs in the upper 80’s, which is typical for this date. Isolated thunderstorms are possible. Rain chances increase on Wednesday. Saharan dust is continuing across the Atlantic with a sizeable plumb currently moving over the Leeward Islands into the Caribbean and eventually towards Florida – perhaps by this weekend.
- The National Hurricane Center is still tracking a disturbance in the northeastern Atlantic that’s now unlikely to develop into the first tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Hurricane season as the chance for development is down to 40%. It’s not of concern regardless.
- Gas prices dropped two cents per gallon on Monday. The average price for regular unleaded in Florida is currently $3.08 per gallon. In Palm Beach County the average price is $3.25 per gallon, in Martin the average is $3.11 and in Indian River County the average is $3.09 per gallon.