A health alert has been issued for harmful blue-green algae toxins in several lakes around Orange County, according to a news ...

The proliferations have become increasingly common in recent years and can have health and economic impacts in affected areas ...

Lake Tarpon, the largest freshwater lake in the Tampa Bay area and home to some of the best bass fishing in the state, has ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in ...

The Army Corps of Engineers released over 54.29 billion gallons of water into the St. Lucie River from Dec. 7 through Jan. 23 ...

DOH says coastal residents should keep their window and doors closed and use air conditioning instead of the sea breeze to cool their homes at this time because the air is potentially toxic.

The Lee County area is the hot spot now, according to recent state reports, which show high toxicity counts here. Fish and ...

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...

The vast majority of the water flowing into the St. Lucie Estuary is from local communities — not Lake Okeechobee.' ...

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Nearly four months ago, our communities were hit with an unprecedented number of tornadoes as Hurricane Milton ripped across the state. On Tuesday evening, the Okeechobee ...

Algae blooms are a problem in many communities around Florida, especially in Clay County. The county’s water management team is removing phosphorus or nitrogen from its water to help combat the ...

The state confirmed a nontoxic algae bloom in Manatee Pocket in Port Salerno on Jan. 2. A prime suspect is Lake Okeechobee discharges that started a month ago, which floods the brackish St. Lucie ...