MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Manatee County commissioners voted on whether to stop adding fluoride to the drinking water supply Tuesday. The process is a longstanding practice throughout the country, ...

A judge says Florida needs to seek what is known as an "incidental take permit" from federal wildlife officials to help minimize the effects of discharges on manatees.

Commissioners in Manatee County plan to vote Tuesday on whether to permanently remove fluoride from drinking water – a practice that leaders recently learned has been suspended since 2021 due to ...

Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the land of sunshine ...

Severe weather forecast for much of the Florida Gulf coast could create dangerous rip currents in Sarasota and Manatee this ...

Fired rangers at the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge in Florida got their jobs back, but manatee fans and local ...

Manatees are one of Florida's most beloved icons ... There are other places to see manatees in and around the Treasure Coast ...

On April 1, there were 41 wildfires in Florida. Monday's storms helped many of Florida's driest counties. Map shows greatest risk of wildfires. The number of wildfires burning in Florida dropped ...

The Keetch-Byram Drought Index average for Florida continues to climb, jumping to a statewide average of 355 Sunday, March 30, up from 339 March 27. Tornadoes, hail and gusty winds are in the ...

Florida ranked third in the ... high" levels nationwide. (Courtesy: Manatee County Sheriff's Office.) Local perspective: One day later, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office arrested a man in St. Pete ...

Manatee County workers last week were busy at Manatee Public Beach, removing a trolley stop on ... bridge to replace the Anna Maria Island Bridge between Holmes Beach and Perico Island. Florida ...