During World Water Day on March 22, it’s worth highlighting ways to explore the Indian River Lagoon and a new photo project ...

The Naples fire was just one of 59 wildfires in Florida, burning 28,532 acres, according to the Florida Forest Service.

A staggering 1,533 Argentine black and white tegus have been captured or observed in St. Lucie County, making it a state ...

Florida Senate redistricting plan is being challenged on the basis that a Tampa Bay-area district was racially gerrymandered.

During the wet season, nearby Lake Okeechobee spills over and flows into the Everglades. Water flows southward through ...

Florida lawmakers took the first steps Tuesday to wipe away the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials.

But for two decades in the 1700s, Great Britain controlled the region, and archeologists have finally found some of their ...

University of Florida researchers are sounding the alarm about the escalating threat of invasive termite species across the ...

the Seminoles resisted and retreated to the swamps of Southwest Florida. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “Soldiers searching for the Indians drew maps. One crude 1857 ...

Rep. Patt Maney has secured $250,000 in funding for the University of West Florida Archaeology Institute to research and find a lost fort from 1800s Okaloosa County.

Florida lawmakers took the ... which first appeared on Spanish maps in the mid-1500s, as the "Gulf of America." Sen. Nick DiCeglie, an Indian Rocks Beach Republican who sponsored one of the ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, also popularly known as 'Suni and Butch', who have been stuck in the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024 owing to certain technical ...