Damage from two hurricanes and a series of punishing wildfires left a price tag of $218 billion in economic costs last year, an 85 percent jump from 2023.

PORT SALERNO — Most businesses were not impacted ... Nearly 26 billion gallons of polluted freshwater has been released into the St. Lucie River — which flows downstream into Manatee Pocket ...

The skills she learned in business accelerator class, the $5,000 grant she received — which she spent on marketing and ...

A Villanova University research team has been collecting data from Florida hurricane impacts on to figure out ways to reduce future damage, writes Maryann ...

Citizens Property Insurance, Florida's insurer of last resort, has dropped tens of thousands of policies in the past week as it continues its depopulation efforts to stabilize the Sunshine State's ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Flower Febres-Cordero ... on marketing and inventory — and the widespread structural damage caused by Hurricane Milton led to a perfect storm, an opportunity for Febres ...

A gopher tortoise was picked up in Port St. Lucie, when a homeowner found her ... It’s against the law to damage, kill, or harass gopher tortoises, their burrows, or their eggs.

As Hurricane Milton approached Florida's Gulf ... Greenlee received a message from a 92-year-old man who said he was in Port St. Lucie from Pennsylvania visiting his son. He told Greenlee he ...

Days before the fallen executive was scheduled to start serving his time, Davis approved an extension because Zahn’s Tampa-area home had been badly flooded by Hurricane Helene, then smashed open ...