Big Pine Key, home to the National Key Deer Refuge, is one of the few islands where the species live. Within minutes of hydrating back on shore, we heard the sounds of crunching leaves and twigs.

Back then, he remembers visiting Sugarloaf Key and seeing standing dead pine trees poking up into the sky like tombstones in a graveyard. Over time, the once-thriving pine rockland forest was wiped ...

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. – One year after Hurricane Irma delivered a destructive blow to Big Pine Key, the community continues to recover. Days after Irma made landfall, Local 10 rode along with first ...

Passage Key, once an island of more than 60 acres with a rich ecosystem, including a freshwater lake, was first identified by Spanish and British explorers as they entered Tampa Bay.