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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week the deepening red tide did not factor into the decision to scale back releases. But the agency also said it has decided not to appeal a judge's order to factor damage from algae blooms into managing lake releases.

The efforts to help Southwest Florida recover from Hurricane Ian damage extend far outside state lines.A company in Maryland has been selling T-shirts to help the Gulf Coast Humane Society with repair costs and to make up for lost revenue.

A power outage affected traffic lights along Alico Road and Ben Hill Griffin Parkway and businesses in Gulf Coast Town Center leading to at least one crash Sunday evening.

Cutting through the waters and chilly temperatures off Florida's Gulf coast just after sunrise early Tuesday, a trio of fishermen aboard a small boat experienced the catch of a lifetime: They spotted two 16-year-old friends who had spent the night adrift on a paddleboard waving down their rescuers from atop an oyster bar miles from shore.The teens, identified by family and friends on social media as Eva Aponte and Avery Bryan, survived 16 hours on the water in temperatures that dipped into the low 40s. Rescuers described them as shivering cold with cuts to their hands and feet from razor-sharp oyster shells but otherwise OK.

The Iraq war has claimed at least 4,000 American lives, according to the Associated Press. We will hear personal stories from those who have lost loved ones in the past five years — what families remember most, and how their lives have changed.

Last year, sea turtle nests were lost when Hurricane Idalia whipped up Florida's Gest Coast before making landfall in the Big Bend during the last week of August as a Category 4 storm. This year, Hurricane Debby disturbed sea turtle nests again along that coast before making landfall in the Big Bend during the first week of August as a Category 1.

In this week’s “Spotlight on the Arts” segment, WGCU’s Tom Hall explores Florida Gulfshore Ballet and Gulf Coast Symphony’s upcoming performances of “The Nutcracker.”

Hurricane season for people on the East Coast is a familiar six-month-long event, but for people on the West Coast, seeing a tropical cyclone is an unusual site.

A monthlong expedition into one of the deepest, least-documented places on the planet discovered hundreds of unknown species. The finds included a "faceless fish" undocumented there since 1873.

Climate change's impact on a South Carolina community can be told through the stories of a dying forest, a fisherman with no bait and a queen fighting to protect a way of life on ancestral land.