Six-foot predatory lizards normally found along the Nile River in Africa have set up shop in South Florida — and Palm Beach County canals are a hot spot. Nile monitors, which can grow to just ...

Next month marks 51 years since Gov. Brendan Byrne signed the state’s campaign public financing program — the first matching funds program in the country for gubernatorial candidates.

NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System April 24 increased the number of areas under extreme drought. A portion of South Florida has been under extreme drought since April 17.

On April 17, there were 71 brush fires burning in Florida. No rain is in the forecast through the Easter weekend. Among the fires is the Powerline Fire in Volusia County, burning 270 acres.

New houses and developments are being built and encroaching closer to lands which need wildfires to thrive, increasing exposure to wildfires.

Spring 1998 and 1999 were especially bad for wildfires in Florida. A 1999 fire in ... had not yet expanded its water and sewer system west of the turnpike, and firefighters were forced to pull ...