A burn ban is now in effect in DeSoto County, prohibiting open burning unless authorized by the Florida Forest Service.

After successfully ending the practice of spreading biosolids, Desoto residents brace for the possibility it may return ...

according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Officials say an airboat operator was navigating the Peace River near the Nocatee Boat in DeSoto County when the vessel ...

As of Friday, April 25, there were 96 wildfires burning across Florida, burning 3,832 acres. Eighteen counties have issued ...

On the horizon directly in front of her burrow, about two miles offshore, Egmont Key’s historic lighthouse towered over ...

Smiling children marched along the route down 10th Avenue West toward Sutton Park and Lamb Park in Palmetto Friday morning. “Once upon a parade” was the theme of this year’s parade. Batons, bands and ...

The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office has announced a 75-year prison sentence for a man convicted of sexual crimes against children. John Marshall Read was initially arrested in March of 2022 on ...