 As of November 2017, "The Palm Beach Post" ranked as the fifth largest newspaper by circulation in the state of Florida, behind only the "Miami Herald", "Sun-Sentinel", "Orlando Sentinel", and "Tampa Bay Times".The West Palm Beach Canal opened in 1917.The canal stretched from the Lake Worth Lagoon westward to Twenty Mile Bend and then northwestward to Canal Point, where it enters Lake Okeechobee.