* Deal seen requiring unpopular water rate hikes * County to pay $1 million civil penalty * County lawmakers pull back f...
May 16 (Reuters) - Local lawmakers in Florida's Miami-Dade County on Thursday queried details of a planned $12.6 billion reconstruction of the count...
By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI, May 16 (Reuters) - The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $180 million contract to dredge Miam...
By Barbara Liston (Reuters) - After six years of searching, an entomologist has concluded that three varieties of butterflies native to south Florid...
In late October, Hurricane Sandy washed out a portion of State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale. And in Miami Beach, seasonal high tides regularly deluge A...
By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive i...
A tour guide in the Florida Everglades took his excursion to 11 when he spotted a massive Burmese Python -- and leapt into the water to wrestle it int...
Florida always has attracted a broad spectrum of foreign critters, from spring breakers to pythons, to coyotes and Africanized bees. But in recent mon...
Great white sharks are a rarity in Florida, so when a shark ate a butterflied bonito on a kite line Tuesday morning off Fort Lauderdale, the crew on H...
In April the tourists depart, and the air pollution arrives. Although South Florida's air quality is generally good, the window between winter's cool...
Manatee deaths in Florida appear to be on a record pace and could reduce the gentle sea creatures' overall population to dangerous levels, according t...
A procession of trucks rumbled into Fort Lauderdale on Monday, bringing the first deliveries of new sand to a beach washed away five months ago by Hur...
A massive, record-breaking fish has been pulled from a South Florida canal -- but it's not good news. That's because the 14 pounds, 3 ounce fish i...
Big Sugar can stay longer but will have to start paying to farm taxpayer-owned land intended for Everglades restoration, according to a new lease deal...
MIAMI (AP) — Three major sewage plants in South Florida could be reduced to shrinking islands in less than 50 years due to climate change, according...
Two birds are recovering in the Florida Keys after they were found with beer cans stuck around their necks. "This was done on purpose!" Florida Key...
Noah's Ark -- without all the flood and calamity -- is coming to Miami. A group of four friends behind an unusual Biblical-themed zoo under constru...
The tea party's influence may have waned on a national level, but the movement's Dr. Michael Coffman isn't giving up on an ongoing fight in Florida. ...
While 68 dead Burmese pythons didn't make much of a dent in their pervasive South Florida population, officials say Florida's infamous Python Challeng...
A Miami man won three cash prizes for hunting snakes in Florida's Python Challenge, then donated his winnings to help a little girl with cancer. R...
Florida may soon be forced to clean up the water washing into canals, the ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, but businesses and governments say the ...
South Florida lawmakers got a stark look Wednesday at how rising sea levels could dramatically change Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade counties and the...
MIAMI -- Two young men who became "stranded and disoriented" while taking part in a python hunt in Florida's Everglades were rescued Thursday afternoo...
It is senseless to give the major polluters a green light to foul the very waterways that taxpayers are spending dearly to fix. But that is what Gov. ...
TAMPA -- Five hundred years after Ponce de Leon landed near St. Augustine and named the land La Florida -- celebrated this year with more than 100 his...
