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Floridians can choose from three virtual meeting times this week to share feedback on "highly regulated black bear hunting" proposals, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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Florida manatees appear to be bouncing back from a record die-off that lasted from 2020 to 2022. But experts still have concerns about the future of the threatened animal species.
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The $34.4 million from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will support improvements to Eatonville’s wastewater and drinking water infrastructure.
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More than $389 million in grant funds is headed to communities across the state for water projects, including projects to help the Indian River Lagoon, Governor Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday.
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The nonprofit citizens action group Friends of the Wekiva River is hopeful the new pilot reservation program at the park will mitigate overcrowding while helping preserve the river system.
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Supporters of the bill say it would help enforce development regulations more consistently. Critics say it would severely undermine local governments — and voters.
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Exhausted by “studies of studies,” residents of Volusia’s rural Tomoka Farms Village community say they're ready to take flooding concerns into their own hands.
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A National Weather Service spokesperson said winds peaked at around 115 mph, or the equivalent of winds seen during a category 3 hurricane.
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Wekiwa Springs State Park is introducing a new reservation pilot program to combat overcrowding on local roads and within the park.
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Ancient cypress trees in Seminole’s Spring Hammock Preserve caught the attention of the national Old-Growth Forest Network.
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An initial study didn’t point to the city’s wastewater plant — or anywhere else — as the likely source of a strong chemical odor. Now, a new study seeks to finally identify the source, per city leaders.
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Funding was approved to get a historically Black community in Osceola County off contaminated wells and onto a public drinking water supply. But in the historic community of Whitted, change is slow to come.