State wildlife officials are delaying the start for recreational harvest season for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

April 10, 2009

Susan Williams lives among cattle ranches and a growing number of new homes. ...more

March 17, 2009

The Florida Wildlife Commission is tweaking its requirements for those who own exotic species, and Susan Williams is among a group pushing for neighborhood notification when people have exotic and dangerous species. ...more

March 13, 2009

To look at Middle Lake today, you wouldn't think it was once 150 acres of water filled with large-mouth bass, blue gill and crappie. ...more

January 18, 2009

Mercury Dangers In Fish A research study presented at a science conference in Tampa last week found unusually high mercury levels in the flesh of nine out of 10 largemouth bass in Florida rivers. The research by the U.S. Geological Survey began in 1998 and measured mercury in 367 stream basins nationally. ...more

December 7, 2008

It's been a while since Richard Stauffer had his last face-to-face experience with a Florida black bear. ...more

September 21, 2008

Drive through Hernando's neighborhoods on any given Saturday and you're sure to see homeowners tending to and enjoying their own little patches of paradise. ...more

September 18, 2008

Joseph Renardo would like nothing more than to haul his two disabled shrimp boats out of the Anclote River, where they have been stuck for almost three years. ...more

August 15, 2008

A former shrimp fisherman whose disabled boats are stuck in the Anclote River is facing two felony charges of littering. The two shrimp boats sit partially sunk in the river just west of the city's famed sponge docks and outside the Rusty Bellies Waterfront Grill, where the restaurant's owner, Julie Russell, said they have been for almost three years. ...more

August 14, 2008

About three months ago, neighbors living off Tarpon Springs Road began mysteriously losing animals. ...more

June 24, 2008