South Florida Water Management District

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes...

The year has been a tale of two states when it comes to rainfall.

The money fueling Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign is coming from deep-pocketed donors, the kind of individuals and businesses who can write six-figure checks to the super PAC that's paying…

Gov. Ron DeSantis has axed funding for South Florida projects to aid public safety and law enforcement, improve drainage and infrastructure, strengthen government cybersecurity defenses, and make i…

Conservation is vitally important for the state's tourism industry — and voters.

Registration opened Wednesday for the 2023 Florida Python Challenge, giving participants a chance to win a share of more than $30,000 in prizes while removing invasive Burmese pythons from the wild.

In Florida alone, thousands of acres of marine seagrass beds have died. Major seagrass die-offs also are occurring around the world. Stressors such as high temperature, hypersalinity and hypoxia or lack of oxygen affect seagrasses' ability to resist and recover from these stressor-related mortality events or when disturbances lead to seagrass die-off events.

The expression "so hungry I could eat a horse" might not be just a figure of speech — for the Burmese python, at least.

As Hurricane Ian bears down on the west coast of Florida, state officials are doing what they can to make sure the area's water infrastructure can withstand the potentially devastating flooding. Drew Bartlett, the executive director of the South Florida Water Management District, joins CBS News to discuss how the agency is preparing for Hurricane Ian.

South Florida hasn't experienced the searing, record-setting heat many other parts of the world have experienced this summer. But it's still been oppressively hot and humid, especially last week when the "feels like" temperatures were between 105 and 110 degrees.

Kevin Pavlidis, a professional python hunter, earns $50 for the first four feet of reptile and $25 per additional foot. He caught Florida's longest python — 18 feet and 9.75 inches — in 2019.…

South Florida's drinking water has become increasingly threatened by shrinking wetlands, algal blooms, and now, saltwater intrusion.

A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These...

Monsters slither throughout the crooked mangroves and serrated sawgrass of Florida's Everglades, 20 feet long and up to 200 pounds of sinewy muscle built by devouring everything in their path.

It may not be possible to eradicate the state's tens of thousands of Burmese pythons. But the local wildlife is biting back—and humans wielding new tech can help.

Researchers are fitting the invasive snakes with radio trackers. When they gather to reproduce, they become easy pickings for scientists looking to control their population.

Tropical storm Nicole, which is gaining strength, is expected to make landfall in Florida early Thursday morning possibly as a Category 1 hurricane.

A 19-year-old Florida man won the top prize in the state's annual Florida Python Challenge after capturing and removing 28 Burmese pythons, an invasive species in the Everglades.

1K people took part in 10-day contest

Matthew Concepcion was among the 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada and Latvia who participated in the annual challenge.