Thousands Of Fish Killed By Red Tide Off Florida Coast
Florida wildlife officials say a large offshore fish kill in the northeast Gulf of Mexico is being caused by a red tide.
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Florida wildlife officials say a large offshore fish kill in the northeast Gulf of Mexico is being caused by a red tide.
Florida Panhandle officials are cleaning up over 1,700 pounds of weathered oil from the 2010 BP oil spill.
Emergency room doctors and nurses are often the only contact victims of human trafficking have with the outside world, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday while launching an initiative aimed to train emergency workers how to identify signs of trafficking.
The federal government is planning to use sound blasting to conduct research on the ocean floor along most of the East Coast, using technology similar to that which spawned a court battle between environmentalists and researchers in New Jersey this summer.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist was given a climate-change lecture Friday and used the opportunity to point out that Republican Gov. Rick Scott isn't saying much about the issue.
A federal appeals court has upheld the state's controversial "docs vs. glocks" bill, overturning an earlier court ruling that had blocked part of the law from being enforced.
Agreeing with another judge in the Keys who made a similar ruling last week, a Miami judge overturned Florida's ban on same-sex marriage in a ruling that applies to Miami-Dade County Friday.
Lynda Bell won her Miami-Dade County commission seat in 2010 largely on a platform of no new taxes and fiscal conservatism. Bell is a Republican.
In one of his final letters to his mother, Justin Campos wrote that, although he was serving a life sentence for killing two members of the notorious Latin Kings gang, he had faith that God would protect him.
A Florida judge is holding a hearing Thursday to decide when the state's congressional districts will be redrawn.
Two escaped inmates are back in a Panhandle jail after they escaped.
Dust off your nets and tickle sticks, South Florida, the 2014 mini-season is around the corner.
Jumbo's is as well known for its shrimp as it is for its history.
The latest poll by Quinnipiac University is set to be released Wednesday, showing where each candidate stands in Florida's gubernatorial race.
Florida Governor Rick Scott is trying to make a sales tax cut to manufacturing machinery permanent and has added it to his re-election platform.
An attorney announced Tuesday a lawsuit against a Hialeah school and a Miami event company, after a 15-year old girl suffered a major brain injury at a school event last year.
Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones planned on marrying Tuesday in Key West after a judge ruled in their favor—overturning Florida's voter-approved constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage—but that won't happen just yet as the motion was denied Monday.
A Daytona Beach father who beat up a man after he says, he found him molesting his 11-year old son spoke out about the incident and the aftermath.
An extra charge on property-insurance and auto-insurance policies to cover claims paid for the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons will end Jan. 1.
News media organizations are asking Florida's Supreme Court to make public the documents used in Florida's redistricting trial.
Another incident on a Walt Disney World ride was reported three-months before a British tourist had a similar accident.
Want to get away but not sure what to do or where to go? Luckily, the sunshine state isn't lacking in the things-to-do department and finding an outdoor adventure in Florida is pretty easy. But if getting away means escaping for a few hours, then nothing satisfies quite like an airboat tour at Everglades Holiday Park.
Florida families don't need to travel because the best staycation ideas are right here at home. With exciting animal encounters, adrenalin-pumping thrills and some of the most amazing scenery on earth, families of all sizes delight in taking airboat rides in Florida.
A 4-year-old boy in the Tampa Bay area has died after being mauled by his uncle's two pit bulls, authorities said Sunday.
