The fish in Lake Apopka and the north-shore canals could be dangerous to human health, the Orange County Health Department warned Friday. “Just out of prudence, I have asked that signs be posted in ...

Lake Apopka West Shore Boat Ramp closure for construction at Ferndale Preserve. Use McDonald Canal Boat Ramp as an alternative.

“Lake Apopka is the best lake for Black Bass in the entire state,” a Sentinel story proclaimed in November 1926. From the 1920s through the 1950s, the lake was hailed in national guidebooks as an ...

APOPKA, Fla. — For decades, scientists have said Lake Apopka is "dead." Farming along the shore turned one of the nation's best bass fishing spots into a toxic pool of sludge. But it's finally showing ...

For most of us in Northeast Florida, Lake Apopka is out of sight and out of mind. But the 30,000-acre lake - that's equivalent to about 50 square miles or the same land area of San Francisco - has a ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Workers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were out at Lake Apopka Wednesday dropping net after net of Florida bass into the water as part of an ongoing ...

A new pilot program vows to restore polluted Lake Apopka to its original glory in just a couple of years. The project doesn't dredge or use chemicals. The magic bullet is oxygen, and it's seeing ...

Wildlife officials are looking for an Apopka fisherman who went missing during a fishing tournament on Lake Okeechobee. Nik Kayler of Apopka was in boat with another angler Boat sank during fishing ...

LAKE APOPKA — Lake Apopka’s Wildlife Drive is probably the best wildlife adventure you’ve never heard of. The huge, 30,000-acre central Florida lake, is located just north and west of Orlando.