A Florida Keys homeowner woke up Friday morning to find a crocodile lounging in her swimming pool, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The reptile was lying on one of the pool’s chairs ...

For South Florida’s commercial fishermen, the effects of red tides on their operations have become a grim annual reality. The tides, named for when overproduction of the harmful algae Karenia brevis ...

A Florida beach boasts “soft sand” — and visitors can’t get enough of it. So much so, the coastal destination was named the best beach in the U.S. Siesta Beach ranks No. 1 on a list of the nation’s ...

The waters have begun to warm to a point that Bill Welzien has restarted his annual swims around Key West, with the count now ...

The College of the Florida Keys swim teams are winding down their season and gearing up for nationals with strong ...

Deputies said they recently helped residents by removing a large alligator from their backyard pool in the Florida Keys.

A prolonged red tide in 2018 lasted over 10 months. During this period red tide was extreme, killing thousands of fish in ...

Weekly data on beach water quality is from the Florida Department of Health. Red tide and algal bloom data are from FWC. Red tide shows conditions from last seven days and algal bloom is from the last ...

Deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said they recently helped residents by removing a large alligator from their backyard pool in the Florida Keys. (Credit: Monroe County Sheriff's Office ...