Opposite the old Everglades bank is the Rod & Gun Club, which grew out of an 1890s trading post. The place is a juicy slice of Americana with its dark wooden furniture and floors, tasseled lampshades, ...

Note: The following contains excerpts from a Sept. 9, 2016, article in The News-Press entitled “History of flushing Lake Okeechobee dates back to 1800s” by Cynthia A. Williams. From Lake Okeechobee to ...

EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. (Reuters) - As Hurricane Irma raged through Everglades City, a tiny fishing village in a vast alligator-infested swamp, Howie Grimm hunkered down inside his house with his ...

At Shark Valley, I took a rental bike and set off in the direction of an observation tower. The path led across a watery prairie feathered with saw grass. It was late in the day, and I was alone.

A father and his 19-year-old son were stranded in the Everglades after dark. They had no food or water. Collier County first ...

Introduction: "A treasure for our country" -- pt. 1. The natural Everglades. -- Grassy water -- The intruders -- Quagmire -- A new vision -- Drainage gets railroaded -- pt. 2. Draining the Everglades.

Before we waded into the swamp, we'd been having a decent time. We'd driven out the day before from Miami. All along the Tamiami Trail, a two-lane highway that runs east-west from Miami to Naples ...

While History Channel's Swamp People: Serpent Invasion drops seasoned hunters into Florida’s Everglades for a relentless, high-octane war against invasive pythons, The Python Hunt documentary slithers ...