Bonita Beach has high fecal bacteria levels, Monday, July 18, 2022, in Bonita Springs, Fla. The Florida Department of Health in Lee County does not recommend swimming at Bonita Beach at this time.

Even though some Florida officials want spring breakers to stay away, the school vacations and fatigue of gloomy weather will likely still send people seeking sunshine on the beaches . But nature ...

Just over a year ago, several Florida beaches w e re inundated by a smelly, irritating seaweed known as sargassum. Will the same thing happen in 2024? The University of South Florida reported earlier ...

The Florida Keys are famous for their sunshine, shoreline, and snorkeling. But their beaches? Not so much. As longtime Floridians, we can vouch that the Keys are not exactly the best place to grab a ...

Southern Florida is still at risk of receiving heavy rain, prompting National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists to publish a map showing where the storm is expected to unleash a deluge. A plume of ...

Families play in the ocean along Cocoa Beach, Florida, where the summertime water temperature has risen 5.5-degrees over the last ten years. (Erik Sandoval, Copyright ...

If you've ever gone on a Florida vacation before, you may assume that you basically know what the Sunshine State has to offer. If you want family-friendly activities, like the scenic, cost-free oasis ...

(AP) Gregg Matthews fancies himself a lumbering Star Wars character of sorts as he treks along a popular Florida beach. He wears stout hiking sandals on the squishy sand and uses ski poles for balance ...

Seagulls lay in the sand as Monica Madrigal finds her way to the ocean through a thick raft of Sargassum seaweed that washed up on the seashore by the 71st Street area in Miami Beach in 2020. Pedro ...