Fakahatchee Strand State Park near Everglades City has reopened a boardwalk through ancient cypress forests. The original was ...

The Central Florida Explorer’s coverage has expanded to encompass events, music, visual arts, travel, outdoors, feature ...

With miles of open space, road trips across the southwest are epic. The terrain ranges from desert to mountains, all of it ...

Lake Weir boys basketball has suffered several losses in the last two years. They're taking those lessons to to fuel their best start in over 10 years ...

Marion County Sheriff’s deputies said Lauren Winburn, 35, broke into a home and stayed there several days while eating the ...

The forest lies on the border between the two states and provides critical habitat for bats, marine life, and more.

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

We meander through the woods, the whine of mosquitoes in our ears. Mendes plays owl calls—they sound like the squeaks of a ...

A black woman’s regular day at work turned into a nightmare when a white man held her against her will in Florida. Jakara ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

The park’s location in Florida’s Forgotten Coast region means it’s surrounded by other natural areas worth exploring. Apalachicola National Forest, the largest national forest in Florida, is just a ...