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Hurricane Irma made U.S. landfall more than a week ago, yet some Southwest Florida communities are still without power and running water, such as…

River Park is an historically African American community in Naples, right on the Gordon River. Being so close to the water and canals has both residents and the NAACP thinking about the neighborhood’s future as the potential impacts of climate change become reality.

Audubon Florida, a well-known environmental group dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats, published a report on the health and success of 43,680 wading bird nests last year from Fort Myers to Lake Okeechobee and south to Florida Bay at the southern tip of mainland South Florida.

Big Cypress National Preserve officials were notified of a wildfire in the northern portion of the preserve, approximately one mile north of I-75 around mile marker 68 on Tuesday.

State education officials on Wednesday approved two rules that could help set the stage for special magistrates to hear disputes about issues such as parents' objections to school-library books.

Southwest Florida is so rich in wildlife habitat and has so many threatened and endangered species that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to add the region to the world’s largest network of protected lands. The Southwest Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Area

Florida announced record tourism numbers for the first quarter of 2024, as totals for international visitors continue to move closer to pre-pandemic levels.Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said Thursday an estimated 40.6 million people traveled to Florida during the first three months of the year, a 1.2 percent increase from the same period in 2023. The state also issued revisions that increased totals for all of 2023.

Heavy rains in Florida could lead to flash floods. We monitor an area where a tropical system may form.

Millions packed sidewalks and spilled into the streets for the No Kings rallies. But in Okeechobee, there was just one grandmother with a sign

A Naples homeowner found a bald eagle tangled in vines, called the experts from the von Arx Wildlife Hospital, where the bird was treated and released back into the wild