"Believe it or not, refrigerators are out there floating." Gov. Ron DeSantis said that some areas have had storm surges as high as 12 feet and that Ian was "battering" southwest Florida.

The National Weather Service regularly issues warning about dangerous rip currents along Florida's coastline ... will be launching a rip current risk map in 2025. A rip current is a powerful ...

Images captured by NASA have mapped record-breaking rainfall in Florida. Over the past month ... Emergency Funds and Where to Keep Them The map shared by NASA Earth Observatory shows the ...

A Sarasota County beach lifeguard who rescued ... Lifesaving Association and was named Lifeguard of the Year by the Florida Beach Patrol Chiefs Association. Mariano Martinez received both awards ...

Once the bag and the car are floating ... University of South Florida. After earning a bachelor’s degree in professional and technical writing, she freelanced for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

"I found it belly-up, floating near the boat," local resident Gloria Baenen said Gulf Coast News An alligator with no head or tail washed up up on the shores of a canal in Cape Coral, Florida ...

A headless, tail-less alligator discovered in Cape Coral, Florida, has sparked a poaching investigation. Resident Gloria Baenen found the mutilated carcass near her boat, prompting concern among ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Health officials in Sarasota County have confirmed a seventh documented case of malaria. The Florida Department of Health reported a new locally acquired case of malaria in ...

News that President Donald Trump plans to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison off the coast of San Francisco got my mind racing. As a child one of my favorite movies was Burt Lancaster's "Birdman ...

A Lexington man has been charged with attempted murder and kidnapping after he allegedly shot another Lexington man in Florida, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. Tobias McDonald ...

"We’re going to continue to perform at a very high level for the residents of Florida,” FDEM's Kevin Guthrie told ABC Action News. SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — With FEMA in the Trump ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy held a town hall in Sarasota on Saturday. The stop was part of their ‘On the Road’ campaign ...