A restoration effort by the Garden Club of Tarpon Springs to provide a major facelift to Mother Meres Park will be completed earlier than scheduled. ...more

October 31, 2009

By June Tarpon Spring's sponge boat tourist attraction should be refurbished to its former glory. Repairs to the former sponge boat that bears the city's name are being undertaken as the city focuses revitalization efforts on sprucing up its Sponge Dock's cultural district, along Dodecanese Boulevard. The work would include restoration of the City Marina, to the east of the Sponge Docks. ...more

March 28, 2009

If Santa would only bring the Crystal Beach Community Association a check for $16,000, its members could finish refurbishing the civic group's famed fishing pier. In lieu of that, the group has formed the nonprofit Crystal Beach Community Enrichment in hopes of garnering enough contributions to complete the much-needed renovations. ...more

December 27, 2008

The secrecy that enshrouded Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's plan to buy out U.S. Sugar now threatens to undermine this critical effort to save the Everglades. ...more

September 13, 2008

Florida's proposed purchase of thousands of acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. to restore the Everglades would be jeopardized if a federal judge forces the state to resume construction on a huge reservoir, attorneys for the state said in court Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

More than a century after Buffalo Bill and others hunted America's wild bison to near-extinction, researchers at a compound near Yellowstone National Park have launched an ambitious restoration effort. ...more

July 31, 2008

The state's plan to buy 187,000 acres from U.S. Sugar Corp. worries the residents of Clewiston, whose town near Lake Okeechobee grew up with the sugar industry and is threatened by the loss of its main industry. ...more

July 20, 2008

WEST PALM BEACH - The state of Florida and U.S. Sugar Corp., the nation's largest producer of cane sugar, are negotiating the sale of thousands of acres of farmland in the Everglades to help restore the wetlands, three officials familiar with the potential deal said Monday. ...more

June 23, 2008

A massive Everglades restoration project will be put on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit by environmentalists, a move that could end up costing the state nearly $14 million just for the delays. ...more

May 18, 2008

Gray wolves in the northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list, after a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal's population soar, federal officials said Thursday. ...more

February 21, 2008