A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 ...

The calamity prompted the Fish and Wildlife Service and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to resort to providing supplemental lettuce for starving manatees in the Indian River ...

Armored catfish are driving manatees out of their warm-water refuges, putting their health at risk. Here’s why it’s happening ...

The Manatee County website reports that a bridge over the Manatee River was first proposed by the county commission on Sept.

Commissioners also recently voted to undo a Comprehensive Plan change made in 2021 that allowed new housing construction east of the county’s Future Development Area Boundary. The rule change led to ...

Now’s the best time to see manatees up-close in Southwest Florida. And one of the best places for sea cow viewing is Manatee ...

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population ...

It looks like federal regulators are rebuffing an effort to get the Florida manatee back on the endangered ... gentle sea cows perished in the Indian River Lagoon in 2021, after pollution killed ...

Some Manatee County commissioners called for a building moratorium over roads and other concerns in east Manatee.

A manatee rescued from the Tar River in November has been medically cleared and released back into a state and federally designated manatee sanctuary in Florida after months of recovery, the North ...

Reese Parrish has lived in his community in Parrish off of County Road 675 for 60 years, and his piece of Old Florida continues to change.

At the time, despite warnings from conservation organizations, the Service failed to consider the possibility that an unusual mortality event was on the horizon in the Indian River Lagoon. The Florida ...