The city council on Thursday asked the city's legal staff and police marine unit to devise a strategy to persuade the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to take a new look at allowing an ordinance setting speed limits and a no-wake zone on an approximately mile-long stretch of the Hillsborough River. The city can approve an ordinance, but officials say the state probably would nix it because of a lack of statistics showing accidents, injuries or fatalities. ...more

July 18, 2009

Authorities say two people have died in a small plane crash in northeastern Florida. ...more

July 12, 2009

Necropsies will be performed on a pair of pygmy sperm whales found stranded off Florida's southwest coast. ...more

July 12, 2009

After a search that lasted more than five hours, authorities found a Polk County fisherman who had a seizure on Sunday afternoon, fell into about 15 feet of water and apparently drowned. ...more

June 7, 2009

Two St. Petersburg teenagers are talking about the one that didn't get away. Early Wednesday morning, 19-year-old Josh Lipert and 16-year-old Robbie Korkoske reeled in an 81/2foot bull shark. They estimated the shark's weight at 300 to 400 pounds. ...more

May 28, 2009

Officials say a 47-year-old man is recovering after he was attacked by an alligator at Lake Okeechobee. ...more

May 26, 2009

The body of a 57-year-old man who jumped off a pontoon boat for a swim Saturday evening has been found in Lake Pierce, Polk County deputies said today. ...more

May 11, 2009

Clearwater Fire and Rescue divers have located the body of a scuba diver reported missing since Saturday afternoon. ...more

May 3, 2009

Wildlife officials are looking for a pregnant cougar that escaped into the woods in central Florida while being transferred to a cage. ...more

May 3, 2009

Florida's sea-turtle nesting season has begun, and thousands of the reptiles will return to their home beaches to lay eggs. ...more

May 2, 2009