The harmful algal bloom called red tide has returned to Southwest Florida, impacting our local beaches. Here's where to swim ...

The Florida Department of Health in Lee and Collier counties issued a advisories for places like Sanibel and Vanderbilt and ...

and treating them like the boy who cries "wolf" when there are repeated warnings without a touchdown in Collier County, "Watch the sky, watch the clouds and just use good common sense," he said. After ...

Red tide has waters off Southwest Florida in the "kill zone." Caused by the Karenia brevis organism, red tide is no stranger ...

Red tide cell counts are well into the "death zone" in Lee County waters as toxins in the ... for places like Bonita Beach and Sanibel. DOH in Collier issued advisories for Barefoot Beach State ...

The Lee County area is the hot spot now, according to recent state reports, which show high toxicity counts here. Fish and marine mammal kills can start once levels reach 10,000 cells per liter.

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being done to prepare for storms?

TALLAHASSEE — A Senate Republican on Tuesday filed a bill that combs through state laws and would replace references to the ...

A Senate Republican on Tuesday filed a bill that combs through state laws and would replace references to the “Gulf of Mexico ...

As an example of the changes that would be made by the bill, legal descriptions of boundaries of gulf-front counties from ...

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It’s no surprise that Florida is a strange place. But some places in the Sunshine State are weirder than others.