Habitat

A renewed push for habitat protections for Florida's sea turtles is putting the ancient creatures on a crash course with fishermen and beach restoration advocates.

There was really only one point up for discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the Hideaway Beach Special Tax District meeting at City Hall.

Collier County commissioners turned down an invitation Tuesday for a spot at the table with other Florida counties to guide how settlement money from the BP oil spill is spent in the Sunshine State.

Collier County commissioners have agreed to spend nearly $1 million in tourist taxes to help fight erosion on another stretch of Hideaway Beach.

Midway through what's normally peak season for West Nile encephalitis, Southwest Florida is dormant. The Collier County Mosquito Control district hasn't had a single positive test among surveillance mosquitoes to monitor for the disease, which can cause brain swelling and ...

Henderson Creek was a busy place on Saturday. The narrow waterway extends out from Rookery Bay, and flows underneath Collier Boulevard between the outlet shops and the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center.

The residents of Hideaway Beach want some more sand to guard their castles from the wrath of the sea. They voted last month to continue to tax themselves for the funds to “improve, renourish, preserve, maintain, monitor and

“Dan Rather Reports” travels to Everglades National Park to investigate the infestation of the Burmese Python. It airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday on AXS TV.

As volunteer work goes, this was a walk on the beach. And a record-high 95 volunteers did walk on Tigertail Beach, as well as scouring the mangroves, the lagoon and the parking lot, as part of the Friends of Tigertail’s ...

Beekeeper David Johnson's bare hands worked slowly as he picked apart a honeycomb crawling with bees he had pulled out of a water meter box on Marco Island.

A team of rescuers lifted a manatee nicknamed Caxy out of the back of a delivery truck and back into its home waters around Marco Island on Monday to the cheers of onlookers.

Capt. Gene Flipse, president of Conscious Breath Adventures, presents “Into the Wild with Dolphins & Whales” on June 27 at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center.

Capt. Gene Flipse, president of Conscious Breath Adventures, presents “Into the Wild with Dolphins & Whales” on June 27 at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center.

Although feeding or enticing an alligator is clearly illegal, violators can be difficult to find and hard to punish, officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

The collision comes as the June to July bear breeding season gets underway and bears are on the move, looking for food and mates, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It was l