Backed by conservation groups, the Florida DOT plans to install devices on a 1.3-mile stretch of U.S. 41 west of Turner River Road to detect animals and activate warning signs to alert motorists. The $650,000 plan is an alternative to ...

More Southwest Florida streams and canals would violate water quality standards under a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to limit pollution in Florida waters, a Naples Daily News analysis shows. A dozen Collier and Lee county streams and ...

This park comprises 80,000 acres

Key Marco Community Association was slapped with fines and a requirement to mitigate what the code board ruled, about one year ago, was irreparable damage to protected habitat in Key Marco. While the association has appealed the code board’s decision ...

Landscapers came across a slithery surprise on Marco Island today as they discovered a 9-foot python sneaking out from underneath a home's lanai just before noon.

Beach tilling from Hilton Beach Resort to Cape Marco scheduled March 24 to help conserve loggerhead sea turtles

A large bear is caught on tape meandering around outside Lee County Electric Cooperative's Belle Meade substation, located on Collier Boulevard in Naples, just north of Marco Island.

A python patrol could soon be on the trail of a slithering menace in Southwest Florida. For years, pythons have been spreading across the Everglades, raising worries about how the non-native invaders might disrupt the South Florida ecosystem.

Some days, he’s a roving naturalist and others, a bumblebee. But whether Dick Brewer is wearing his wide-brimmed outdoors hat or black and yellow antennae, he is always teaching people about the swamp.

"All of a sudden, it was like, 'That's a big snake,"' said Curry, a resource management specialist at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Marco’s Community Development Department is presenting the Florida Friendly Landscapes public workshop from 6 to 8 p.m., on Thursday, at Mackle Park, located at 1361 Andalusia Ct.. The courses will inform residents, including gardeners, landscapers and property owners, which species ...

A plan to remove 12 stormwater pipes was a condition of a state permit issued to Collier County in 2005 to add sand to the beach.

The HHH Ranch is seeking $92 million from Collier County after a 2002 rural growth plan restricted development and prohibited mining on 900 acres of the ranch in North Belle Meade.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting the meeting to update the public on the Merritt Canal portion of the Picayune Strand restoration project.

Black tie was not even an option. Black mud on the shoes, though, was a very real possibility for the nature lovers who attended the Friends of Fakahatchee’s Safari fundraiser on Saturday.