Update: This story had been updated to include additional context about Hodgers' attendance at SOIRL oversight meetings. A missed audit of a program responsible for hundreds of millions of taxpayer ...

The Indian River Lagoon is one of the most biodiverse estuaries in North America. Throughout it’s 156-mile length — spanning five counties and 40% of Florida's east coast — over 3,500 species of fish, ...

This is a recycling story with literally countless twists and turns. According to researchers at Florida Institute of Technology, putting many thousands of self-contained, bagged bottle caps in select ...

For years, the Heal the Bay Foundation dissed Long Beach’s Colorado Lagoon for its poor water quality. In 2010-2011, the lagoon earned a spot on the group’s Beach Bummer list due to consistently poor ...

More Florida manatees have died in the first three months of 2021 than in all of 2020, most of them in the Indian River Lagoon's stretch through Brevard County. At least 649 manatee deaths, compared ...

A proposed mixed-use project that could eventually be valued at $1 billion and feature a 4-acre lagoon with restaurants, retail, an amphitheater, a hotel and up to 1,600 apartments could start ...