GRiZ performed a second time Saturday evening as the sun set behind pine and palmetto trees with a sunset "Chasing the Golden Hour" set at the BE stage, followed by rapper BigXthaPlug hailing from ...

Cyanobacteria, commonly called toxic blue-green algae, has spread across more than half of Lake Okeechobee, Florida’s largest ...

Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis) have emerged in the lake ...

In February 2023, officials broke ground on the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee. When completed, the reservoir will store up to 240,000 acre-feet of water, or ...

The public should avoid contact with toxic algae in Lake Okeechobee along Southwest Conners Highway, according to a state ...

A lot can happen in ten years. Back in 2016, Okeechobee County — a quiet, agricultural pocket of Florida — transformed into the unlikely home of a music and arts festival that would go on to define a ...

Mariners traveling Florida waters will not have access to the east-west shortcut across Lake Okeechobee for three months beginning Jan. 4 — the busiest part of the state's boating season. That means ...

Lake Okeechobee is the second-largest freshwater lake in the contiguous United States and has long been considered the heart ...

USACE Jacksonville District says water releases to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers can be eliminated in order to stop harmful algae blooms. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is changing the way ...

An individual is in the hospital following a lighting strike in Okeechobee County.