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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Splinter the green sea turtle returned home to the Atlantic Ocean off Key West on Friday. It was less than two months after she was found off Key Largo,... -
The local legend in Key West is that a few businessmen started Fantasy Fest in 1979 because they wanted to drum up some business at the end of the off... -
Online home renting sites like Airbnb have greatly expanded the vacation rental market — when travelers rent a home or apartment instead of a hotel room... -
There's a reason Key West was the inspiration for the song Margaritaville. The island runs on booze. Tourists and the Duval Crawl — that’s the obvious.... -
Initial reporting can leave lasting impressions after a hurricane — and that can be really damaging to a tourism destination. -
For years, the city of Key West and Monroe County have been at odds about the location of the city's homeless shelter. But they may have reached a... -
This post was updated at at 12:15 p.m. on Sept. 12 The prospect of genetically modified mosquitoes is back for the Florida Keys — just as a new study... -
Two people were killed in a small plane crash off Marathon Sunday morning, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. The 1961 Cessna 210... -
All of the Florida Keys reef is under thermal stress — meaning the water is warm enough that corals may start bleaching. -
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that slammed Islamorada was the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall on record — until Sunday, when Hurricane Dorian tied...