For Florida’s manatee population and manatee conservationists around the world, 2025 was a banner year. ZooTampa’s David A.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a record 19 executions in 2025 — and has carried out 17 so far — the highest ever in a single year in both the state and the U.S. since the 1970s. The state also ...

More than 600 manatees were found dead in Florida in 2025, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

Manatees remain among the most charismatic 'canaries' in Indian River Lagoon's ecological ‘coal mine.’ In 2025, they kept ...

Lee County leads Florida in manatee deaths from boat strikes in 2025, with 14 recorded incidents. Statewide, manatee deaths ...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — Newly released court documents reveal new details about a family’s response to the death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, who was killed while aboard a cruise ship last month.

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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After more than a year of rehabilitation at ZooTampa, “Mudonna,” the manatee that was rescued after Hurricane Helene and Milton, was released back into the wild. Mudonna was ...

Simple, low-cost solutions could bring down America’s soaring rate of pedestrian deaths, according to traffic safety experts. But states and cities have been slow to adopt them even as fatalities have ...

Blue Spring State Park is Florida at its finest. Located west of Orange City and north of Orlando, the 2,600-acre destination centers around the eponymous first-magnitude spring that discharges more ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion robbery was put to death Thursday evening in a record 19th execution in Florida this year. All ...

A Bay County man is the first person in Florida to have a death sentence upheld under a new non-unanimous jury law. The Florida Supreme Court upheld Michael Hunt's conviction for a 2019 murder where a ...