"It will not take much to get a brush or grass fire to flare up and rapidly spread," one meteorologist told Newsweek.

The wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades rapidly expanded to 22,000 acres on Thursday, from 3,600 acres on Wednesday.

The fast-moving fire that closed the only two roads in and out of the Florida Keys has now spread to Homestead, closed the ...

Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is training its eyes again on city and county governments, with dozens of bills ...

Card Sound Road remains closed as firefighters battle a 14,000-acre wildfire in South Florida. U.S. 1 was closed Wednesday.

The population has kept growing in many of Florida’s metropolitan areas, including South Florida and Central Florida — ...

An active brush fire was reported in Volusia County on Thursday amid a Red Flag Warning issued for Central Florida. The 75-acre fire is located southeast of the intersection of State Road 44 and State ...

Author and poet Sarah Trudgeon lives in Great Barrington, Mass., but she stays connected to South Florida through poetry: for ...

Dara Kam News Service Florida  Contributor Rural officials are balking at legislation that would allow voters to decide whether county commissioners should be limited to eight years in office, ...

In a major opinion, the Third District Court of Appeal rejected and reversed a trial court ruling that interpreted various ...