MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County commissioners recently approved an investment of $24 million into the county’s parks. Recently, mornings have been really busy for crews working at Manatee County ...

The cold snap that has chilled South Florida for the past few days has sent manatees scrambling for the warmer waters in ...

This week's cold front has brought a group of manatees to the warm water which surrounds Manatee Lagoon in West Palm Beach.

In Florida, manatees are best known as shy, gentle giants. But about once a year, the state’s beloved sea cows reveal an…erm…freakier side of themselves. You ...

1 Energy Place was listed for sale and includes a 250,000 square foot office building and more than 13 acres of developable, waterfront property near downtown Pensacola FPL will continue to have an ...

The Wild in the Palm Beaches Tour is back, inviting guests to explore three iconic wildlife attractions in Palm Beach County. Taking place every Sunday through March 1, visitors can enjoy half-day ...

A Sarasota Army veteran and single father received a surprise holiday home transformation from FPL and the Dennis V. Cooper Foundation. Coworkers nominated him for the makeover, which included lights, ...

Darkness had fallen by the time Navy veteran La’Kinya Wright and her young daughter returned to their St. Augustine home on a recent afternoon. But when they arrived, the exterior of the Helen Street ...

It’s one thing to visit an aquarium and gaze in awe at a 1,000-pound manatee swimming just behind the glass. It’s another thing to share the same water with Florida’s sea cows, encountering them in an ...

Nopetro Energy will soon design, finance, build and operate a landfill gas to renewable natural gas facility in Manatee County. The facility will be located at the Lena Road Landfill. The $50 million ...

To call Florida Power & Light’s $6.9 billion rate increase a “settlement,” as the utility and its regulators do, is like calling a bank robbery a “transaction.” The terminology is facially correct. It ...

In the wild, Florida’s manatees already face threats from cold stress, habitat loss, boat strikes and other human activities. Now advocates worry about the potential peril that manatees may encounter ...