Lil Joe’s amazing life journey has taken him from peril in the St. Johns River to near-tragedy in the Little Econ to recovery ...

The Bradenton Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of the man who police say is responsible for a deadly hit ...

The Friday predawn home fire that killed a Deerfield Beach woman and her dog struck investigators as suspicious from early on ...

The Bradenton Police Department said the suspect, 28-year-old Julio Torres, was speeding down 15th Street West in a black Infinity sedan around 11:30 p.m. Torres then lost control of the vehicle and ...

Even before the LPGA Tour season begins at the end of the month, Nelly Korda isn't skipping out on valuable course time. She's the World No. 1 for a lot of reasons, and her work ethic is one of them.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is pushing to protect the sea cow population by separating ...

"Pamlico," a 9-foot female manatee rescued last November from a canal in Greenville, has been released in Florida waters.

Cold temperatures in Florida can have a serious impact on the animals living in the sunshine state. When temperatures dip too ...

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. -- A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S ...

The West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, is already considered threatened.

The proposed rule would keep the Florida manatee as threatened, continuing its status since being delisted as endangered in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Florida’s iconic manatees gather in droves near the warm-discharge of the state’s coastal power plants ...