Katie Delk

Hurricane Ian trampled over 5 million acres of agricultural land in Florida. For small, family farmers, the recovery is a long season, a brutal winter, fruitless.

Jack Sweeney, 20, an information technology sophomore, created the flight tracker while he was in high school.

Florida is among 32 states that don’t treat 911 dispatchers as first responders. Recent efforts in the state Legislature to change that have not advanced.

As Hurricane Ian crashed through Florida, some farmers lost everything. The hurricane drowned crops, and farmers across the state face major losses and profit losses. Gov. Ron DeSantis this week approved a program granting money to small businesses, including farmers.

Florida’s estuaries once teemed with clams, oysters and other bivalves that helped keep waters clean and seagrasses healthy. By the mid-20th century, only a fraction of the state’s vast shellfish beds and reefs remained. Can a small clam make a big difference in serious water pollution hotspots like the Indian River Lagoon?