A citizens' group is willing to chip in $150,000 toward a $1 million land purchase that could double as a wildlife habitat ...

Big Cypress National Preserve: Florida’s Expansive Wetland Ancient Alligator. Image via Unsplash Adjacent to the northern boundary of Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve protects ...

With district playoffs set to begin next week, teams in the Sunshine State are looking to close out the regular season on a high-note, and that includes a number of schools in the Big Bend region ...

But you’ll spot plenty during summer as well, including elegant snowy and great egrets, on the flat, 2-mile Shorebird Loop Trail that starts in freshwater wetlands and continues through fields and ...

Rescuers from ZooTampa traveled to Florida’s Big Bend to rescue a juvenile manatee trapped in a pond. Screengrab from ZooTampa at Lowry Park's Facebook post A hunter stumbled across a large ...

'Haunted ghost forest' studied in new research When sea level rises and salt water floods coastal forests, it kills the trees. What’s left behind is called a ghost forest.

The sparsely populated Big Bend is known for its towering pine forests and pristine salt marshes that disappear into the horizon, a remote stretch of largely undeveloped coastline that’s mostly ...

For the third time in 13 months, this windswept stretch of Florida’s Big Bend took a direct hit from a hurricane — a one-two-three punch to a 50-mile (80-kilometer) sliver of the state’s more than ...

One day out from Hurricane Helene's record-setting havoc around Florida's Big Bend, relief workers, politicians and clean-up crews made a push.