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It's actually called Vibrio vulnificus, and a range of peer-reviewed academic papers are reporting the infectious and deadly ...

When Polk County bought the property, the main purpose was for water treatment and slowing the flow into the Peace River. “It ...

While the Tampa Bay area experienced significant rainfall and flooding, destructive storm surge was avoided due to the ...

The state's emergency management director says Florida is preparing for the largest evacuation in years, since Hurricane Irma in 2017. They've prepared emergency fuel and EV charging stations and ...

With the Rod & Reel Pier gone and sand shifted all around local waterways, what will anglers find as they begin to start ...

"Reverse storm surge" is a familiar, if sometimes unremarked-upon, function of how hurricane winds move seawater as the ...

Water receded from the Tampa Bay shoreline as Hurricane Milton approached Florida’s Gulf Coast because of a phenomenon called ...

Only days after explosively strengthening into the most intense Gulf hurricane in nearly two decades, the eye of Hurricane ...

For the faithful in Florida, destructive Hurricane Milton has disrupted plans for observing the Day of Atonement — the ...

Videos showed water had inundated the facility and surrounding streets, with cars flooded and first responders traveling by ...