Posted: 9:03 AM Local fishing guides will teach you the tricks of the trade. The sessions help folks get comfy with being on the water, while an FWC officer reviews boating safety.
Posted: 2:55 PM Over the past two weeks, Flagler County deputies have responded to seven raccoon-related calls, including one that was "hissing and jumping" at school children at a bus stop.
Posted: 11:07 AM More stringent rules will begin on September 1.
Posted: 1:23 PM The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) honored three young freshwater anglers, a team of two and an individual, with plaques for special accomplishments at the FWC’s public meeting in Lakeland Thursday.
Updated: 2:25 PM Temporary changes making it easier for divers to help control the lionfish population will be put into Florida rule soon.
Posted: 8:53 AM A California man accused of selling young nurse sharks over the Internet faces charges in South Florida.
Updated: 4:36 PM The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes the Zestos and Rockland Grass Skippers are likely extinct.
Posted: 10:55 PM University of Florida scientists are hoping they have a second chance to save a rare Florida Keys butterfly.
Updated: 3:48 PM Commercial oyster harvest on the summer oyster bars of Apalachicola Bay waters will be shortened from seven days a week to five days a week starting June 1, when the summer bars open to harvest.
Posted: 12:21 AM Despite the small catch, the fishermen say they think the trip helped prove their point.
Posted: 2:19 PM Officials with a Central Texas wildlife refuge say twin giraffes have been born, marking just the second time such a birth has occurred in the U.S.
Updated: 9:40 AM The 2013 Gulf of Mexico recreational red snapper season begins June 1 in state and federal waters.
Posted: 3:03 PM Jungle Island in Miami is hosting a contest to name its first baby flamingo of the year.
Posted: 1:35 PM Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park and Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park were named in the 23nd annual Top 10 Beach List for 2013. The list is produced by coastal expert Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, also known as “Dr. Beach,” a professor at Florida International University.
Posted: 10:09 AM The recreational harvest of snook in Atlantic state and federal waters closes June 1.
Updated: 5:15 PM An FWC spokeswoman says the 620-pound bear was captured on Monday.
Posted: 2:48 PM A Miami man has caught and killed the longest Burmese python ever captured in Florida: 18 feet, 8 inches.
Updated: 1:22 PM Commercial fishermen in the Florida Keys say it's been a disastrous harvest.
Posted: 1:32 PM A proposed rule change would prohibit the importation of live captive deer into Florida from out-of-state sources.
Posted: 3:29 PM Sally Bethea of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Organization advises people not to touch the water. She said that E. coli is a major concern.
