RIPEKA Crews from the Florida Division of Forestry are battling a 30-acre brush fire in the Withlacoochee State Forest's Homosassa tract at the north end of Indian Bay. ...more

April 25, 2009

Two controlled burns in the Withlacoochee State Forest are causing a haze of smoke in eastern and central Hernando County ...more

April 22, 2009

A bobcat that jumped on a Boy Scout and an elderly man in separate attacks over the weekend in Citrus County turned out to be rabid, health officials said today. ...more

April 1, 2009

State wildlife officials say a bobcat attacked two people in Citrus County. ...more

March 31, 2009

Investigators are calling a wildfire that blackened a square mile in east Hernando County suspicious and say it may have been deliberately set. ...more

March 24, 2009

The fire was reported around noon Sunday in the Withlacoochee State Forest, near the Richloam Clay Sink area. ...more

March 23, 2009

A wildfire that has scorched nearly a square mile of state forest land in Hernando County has closed State Road 50 east of U.S. 301 while smoke from another fire is spreading over New Port Richey. ...more

March 23, 2009

Firefighters have managed to secure an area in eastern Hernando County where a 600-acre brush fire threatened at least 50 homes. ...more

March 22, 2009

Killing freezes, a stubborn lack of rain and the usual dry winter air have united to turn most of the state's vegetation into tinder. ...more

February 12, 2009

Killing freezes, a stubborn lack of rain and the usual dry winter air have united to turn most of the state's vegetation into tinder. ...more

February 11, 2009