Officers were on the scene and investigating it as an "active crime scene," Arielle Callender, the public information officer for the South Region office of the Florida Fish & Wildlife ...

An 89-year-old man and his dog were killed in apparently separate bear attacks near the victim's home in Florida, officials said. The fatal incidents may have involved more than one bear ...

A woman was killed by an alligator while canoeing on Lake Kissimmee on Tuesday, May 6, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She encountered the alligator late in the ...

Authorities are investigating a suspected bear attack in southwest Florida that left a man and a dog dead, officials said. Robert Markel, 89, was discovered dead along with his dog at his home ...

The University of Florida and Centre College conducted a study to find the cause of nearly all alligator attacks in Florida Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Florida’s surgeon general saved the day after state Sen. Ileana Garcia fainted midway through a press conference, springing into action and catching her before she fell. The scary scene unfolded ...

By Johnny Diaz An 89-year-old man and a dog were killed in Southwest Florida on Monday in what the authorities said appeared to be separate attacks by a black bear. Officials received a call just ...

Wild bears are found in almost half of Florida. Southwest Florida is among the "frequent" locations and include Central Florida and the Panhandle. Living with bears in Florida: Feeding bears is ...

Khaleda Rahman is Newsweek's National Correspondent based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on education and national news. Khaleda joined Newsweek in 2019 and had previously worked at the ...

An alligator attacked and killed a woman in a small boat in the water near a popular Florida lake Tuesday, authorities said. The woman was in the boat in the mouth of Tiger Creek where it meets ...

A Florida man was apprehended in a wooded area in Washington County after a woman he allegedly assaulted and held in a storage container escaped. David Earl Gipson, 40, has been arrested on ...

Ticket prices vary depending on the class of service and destination, with a recent increase for South Florida routes. In 2023, Brightline completed an 11-year plan to run high-speed train service ...