Florida Bay

After a down year, spoonbill return

An Audubon scientist sees a flash of pink hope in the return of roseate spoonbill to nests on the mangroves...

Planting a garden? What's your rush?

"Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons" By Felder Rushing (Chelsea Green)

Cruise ships banned from releasing sewage along Calif. coast

Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be barred from releasing sewage within three miles of the Ca...

Edible landscaping takes food plants beyond bounds of vegetable patch

Food plants have jumped the fence from the kitchen garden.

Try houseplants as gifts for Valentine's Day and beyond

Why give fresh flowers for Valentine's Day, only to know they will soon die. Instead, give an easy-care hou...

Environment

Guantánamo -- the place with the prison camps -- is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo ...

New beach water rules: Enough to make you sick

When Congress approved the Beach Act in 2000, I was hopeful. The law required the Environmental Protection ...

Florida offers look at problems with education law

Florida, home to several of the nation's largest school districts, offers a look into what went wrong with...

Pinecrest

Pinecrest Gardens Youth Arts Festival seeks students

Pinecrest Gardens’ second annual Big Gig is accepting applications from children who are interested ...

Miami-Dade Schools

Student, 18, charged in Barbara Goleman Senior High stabbing

Frank Oreste Acosta told police that he felt bullied by the other student and didn’t think the small...

Florida, 9 states receive No Child Left Behind waiver

President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No ...

2012 FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

Bill to make USF Polytechnic state’s 12th university draws debate

Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the...

Miami-Dade Schools

Northwestern students learn dance, history in workshop

This week, students at Miami Northwestern Senior High are learning the choreography of

In My Opinion

Paranoia is justified on charter-school bill

In their despair, people who care deeply about public education in Florida sometimes get a little carried a...

Haiti, through a photographer’s lens

A flicker of light in Haiti

Two years after an unprecedented and unimaginable natural disaster, Haiti still mourns its dead, struggles ...

Henry Flagler, his town, and the fire

Did Henry Flagler have an explosive secret? Some in Palm Beach County say yes.

Republican primary

Where the GOP hopefuls stand on the issues

A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of key issues in Florida a...

CUBA

How church, Castros learned to coexist

Enrique López Oliva remembers the days when Cuban Catholics hung their religious icons in their grand...

How not to sign away your rights on a foreign cruise

By any measure, the sinking of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy on Jan. 13 was a human tragedy. ...

HELPING HONDURAS

The risks and rewards of helping Honduras

Pink. Yellow. Green. Blue.

To Our Readers

The dangers of being a Honduran whistleblower

Two weeks after Frances Robles returned from a reporting trip to Honduras, she received a phone call from a...

NYC sewage plant to offer Valentine's Day tours

It may not smell like a rose but a New York City sewage plant is offering tours for lovers on Valentine's Day.

Hundreds ask Vt. to keep prank pig on police decal

Pakistani man fights police over 40-foot shark

Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hu...

Necklace flushed down toilet returned months later

A California woman has her gold necklace back months after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.

Car theft suspect held after LA roof standoff

A suspect in an auto theft was arrested Thursday after a bizarre five-hour standoff on the rooftops of a We...

Ex-CA mayor admits stealing mixer to make pizza

The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the lo...

Trooper: Irate driver hit man with sledge hammer

The Washington State Patrol says an irate driver apparently whacked a man in the shoulder with a small sled...