Pointing to ongoing threats to manatees, a U.S. district judge Friday said the state has violated the federal Endangered ...

The state denies it has violated the federal law and says it has taken steps to lessen pollution in the Indian River Lagoon.

Amid an environmental threat to manatees in Florida, a federal district judge ruled the state violated the Endangered Species ...

A PEOPLE staffer rode along as a rescued manatee named Owa was returned to the wild after three months of rehabilitation at ...

A wildlife advocacy group has won a landmark manatee protection case, forcing Florida to scrutinize sewage problems in the northern Indian River Lagoon ...

The federal district judge said there was a "definite causal link" between the Department of Environmental Protection's wastewater regulations and the ...

A one-day manatee survey in Crystal River is the focal point of one episode of Jeff Corwin’s current series, “Extraordinary ...

The advocacy group Bear Warriors United said this ruling sets a new national precedent: “No state agency is above the ...

CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. — As a boat full of sunburned tourists came in a little too fast and a little too close to a mother manatee and its calf slowly gliding through the water, Mike and Stacy Dunn ...

Federal lawmakers are calling for Florida leaders to take swift action to control water pollution after a Tampa Bay Times ...

RIDES, slides and fairytale castles may be Central Florida’s most famous draws, but in Crystal River on the dazzling Gulf ...

Orlando-based Judge Carlos Mendoza said the state has violated the federal Endangered Species Act in its regulation of ...