Venice

Kim Hackett and her family drove seven hours from Venice to Miami Beach to ride out Milton. She remembers the chaos of previous hurricanes like Irma and Charley.

A necropsy was performed in an attempt to determine cause of illness and death and to better understand sperm whale health, energetics, and life history.

Sperm whales are an endangered species, but are also resident animals to the Gulf of Mexico. It is also rare for them to wash up on Florida shores.

The 50-feet-long whale was beached on a sandbar about 50 yards out in Venice. Weather prevented a rescue and the whale died between 3 and 4 a.m. Monday.

U.S. Coast Guard St. Petersburg is seeking information on a missing boat with four male occupants.

Southwest Florida is in the midst of an abnormally dry to moderate drought.

Small business owners in the greater Tampa Bay region and nearby counties are approved to receive $900 million in lending — so far — to help in recovery from Hurricane Ian.

A collapse of the rear wall allowed winds to rip open the roof and water to flood into the building's mainstage theater space.

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers arrived in Florida just days after Hurricane Ian made landfall.

On Sunday, Governor Ron DeSantis said the city of North Port experienced the worst flooding in the state.

Even though it’s not known what is causing the red tide algae that’s meant headaches for Florida this summer, one Venice official wants to extend a ban on…

Some of the first sea turtle nests of 2018 are already being discovered by Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Patrol. That’s right. The turtles are…