A multibillion-dollar effort to restore Florida's Everglades has made little progress amid funding shortfalls, bureaucratic red tape and disagreements, according to a congressionally mandated report that warns the vast wetland is in peril. ...more

September 30, 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

Two companies have been ordered to make restitution for trees taken out without proper permits at Learning Gate Community School and the house next door. ...more

December 27, 2007

Two companies have been ordered to make restitution for trees taken out without proper permits at Learning Gate Community School and at the house next door. ...more

December 22, 2007

A severe drought, forecast for 2008, could further damage the fragile Everglades ecosystem at a time when officials are scrambling to save the state's River of Grass. ...more

December 18, 2007

PICAYUNE STRAND - It all comes back to the water. Water is at the heart of the plan to save and restore the Everglades. How it flows, where it goes and what it contains. From north of Lake Okeechobee to the Picayune Strand State Forest in southwest Collier County, the Everglades restoration plan hinges on a complex system of engineering and environmental projects meant to reverse damage to the fragile ecosystem that defines Florida. For the past seven years, however, the biggest question about the Everglades hasn't been water. It has been money. ...more

November 25, 2007

SEVEN YEARS AGO Congress approved the Everglades restoration plan. Funding delays have affected construction costs and ...more

November 25, 2007

It all comes back to the water. Water is at the heart of the plan to save and restore the Everglades. How it flows, where it goes and what it contains. ...more

November 25, 2007

The multibillion-dollar project to restore the Everglades has come to a near standstill, and the government can no longer estimate how much it will cost or how long it will take, the top federal official in charge of construction told The Associated Press. ...more

November 23, 2007

BELLEAIR - Residents received their first look Wednesday night at ambitious plans to restore the once-threatened Belleview Biltmore Resort and Spa to its former grandeur, a $100 million project aimed at preserving the 110-year-old landmark and its Victorian charm. The restoration plan, presented to more than 100 people at a Belleair Town Commission meeting, calls for replacing the pagodalike entrance a former Biltmore owner added in the 1990s and relocating the spa. Also proposed were new ballrooms and banquet facilities, several more restaurants and retail shops. ...more

September 19, 2007