Okeechobee News

A measure taken to protect one endangered bird in the Florida Everglades, the Cape Sable seaside sparrow, may be driving the Everglades snail kite out.

A video developed with the help of Mirror Lakes Elementary School students to impress children with the serious consequences of arson is getting good play within the Lee County School District.

This week marked a year since Lake Okeechobee hit its lowest point ever: 8.82 feet on July 2, 2007.

A teen who lost his arm in an alligator attack is recovering at his Okeechobee County home.

MIAMI : Florida's proposed purchase of nearly 300 square miles of land for Everglades restoration moved forward this week when water managers who would oversee the property endorsed the state's $1.75 billion ...

And now something from the "Greatest Songs of All Time" department, a little ditty called "Amos Moses," sung by Atlanta's own Jerry "When You're Hot, You're Hot" Reed: "Now the folks around south Louisiana Said ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that fuel contamination and a pilot's inadequate preflight inspection most likely caused two people to make an emergency landing in April after their ...

Despite the fears of rural communities of a body blow to their economies, the South Florida Water Management District gave unanimous approval Monday to the blockbuster plan for acquiring U.S. Sugar and using the company's land to help restore the Everglades.

The district's governing board voted 6-0 to begin detailed negotiations with the company and to spend money for appraisals and environmental assessments, with the deal expected to close by November.

Gov. Charlie Crist announced last week that the state had made an agreement in principle to acquire the company and its land around Lake Okeechobee, opening up vast new possibilities for restoring South Florida's famous but ailing wilderness.

Kasey Edwards said he never paid "too much mind" to alligators swimming in canals in Okeechobee County.

The original plan for restoring the Everglades would tighten human control over the battered, shrunken South Florida wilderness.

Artificial wells drilled 1,000 feet into the earth. Walled, above-ground reservoirs. Diesel-powered pumps.

The land of alligators, herons and panthers faced a future on the ecological equivalent of a heart-lung machine, with complex oil-powered, computer-controlled engineering works moving water through the ecosystem.

Although many environmentalists and scientists have supported the plan as better than nothing, they remain uncomfortable with what they see as a blueprint for a facade of natural wetlands supported by an artificial, ugly water system designed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Robert Buker Jr. of U.S. Sugar signs the statement of principles while Gov. Crist and Shannon Estenoz of the South Florida Water Management District look on.

An unidentified caller was frantic early Sunday morning when he dialed 911. The caller told the dispatcher that 18-year-old Kasey Edwards, of Okeechobee, had just been attacked by an 11 1/2-foot alligator and ...

A new Everglades land deal could undermine an existing water project that has already cost the state millions of dollars.

Welcome to "America's Sweetest Town" - born, built and raised on sugar, a true workingman's community in the sweaty heartland of the Everglades.

There's good news for the Florida Everglades this week, as a sugar producer signed an agreement to cut production and sell land to the state in the Everglades area.

An Okeechobee man who set fire to a Highlands County restaurant got caught up in the blaze and was taken to Tampa General Hospital, according to the state fire marshal's office.

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The first panel in Gov. Charlie Crist's conference on climate change brought together nationally known religious scholars to discuss "Preserving God's Creation," putting a theological bent on the issue.

AN 18-YEAR OLD IS RECOVERING AFTER LOSING HIS ARM TO AN ALLIGATOR. OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS SAY KASEY EDWARDS DECIDED TO SWIM ACROSS A CANAL NEAR LAKE OKEECHOBEE, DESPITE HIS FRIENDS URGING HIM NOT ...

A man whose arm was ripped off his body by an 11-foot alligator survived the attack by gouging its eyes during the animal's death roll.