The US Coast Guard rescued a wounded sea turtle two miles off of Plantation Key in Florida on Tuesday, September 18. Personnel with Coast Guard Station Islamorada received a call from the Marathon Turtle Hospital reporting an injured sea turtle.
The popular and iconic Snappers Key Largo bar and restaurant on the ocean side of mile marker 94.5 became a monument to the damage Irma inflicted on the Upper Keys. But, it also became a symbol of Keys resiliency in the storm’s aftermath.
Nearly one year after Hurricane Irma tore through the Middle Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm, Hawks Cay Resort fully reopened Thursday after a $50 million renovation.
A sailboat captain’s mishap caused the boat to hit the transmission line, or tieline, but no injuries were reported. Power was out for all of Keys Energy’s 29,000 customers from 7:54 p.m. to 8:09 p.m.
Three men were arrested by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in the Florida Keys an hour before lobster miniseason began at midnight Tuesday.
Canadian filmmaker Rob Stewart disappeared after a deep-water dive in the Florida Keys in 2017. His body was found with the help of a remotely operated underwater vehicle and was recovered by a team of divers.
Matt Royer, director of operations at the Florida Keys SPCA's Key West campus, talks about the new $8.4 million, 23,000-square-foot shelter to open later this year.
Monroe County Circuit Judge Luis Garcia sentenced a man who shot into a busy Key West crowd in March 2016, wounding three tourists, to 18 years in prison Wednesday. The man claimed self defense under Florida's controversial 'Stand Your Ground' law.
Coco, a nearly 9-foot-long manatee who got caught up in fishing line, was found in a canal alongside Coco Plum Drive in Marathon the day after researchers put out the call for help to the public in an effort to locate the hurt animal.
Fighter pilots from Homestead Air Reserve Base brushed up on their water survival skills off Key Largo Sunday, with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary.
A deckhand for the Florida Keys dive shop Captain Hooks filmed a large great white shark swimming above the Thunderbolt wreck off Marathon Thursday, May 17, 2018.
Researchers with the conservation group Osearch said two great white sharks they tagged last year off South Carolina were tracked swimming off Key West earlier this month.
