Lake Okeechobee

Belle Glade Faces Its Demons After a Senseless Murder

Public Has Three More Days to Comment on Possible New Wildlife Refuge

Coming to a cattle ranch near you.​The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the public comment period for a proposal to turn 150,000 acres of savanna ranch land north of Lake Okeechobee into the "Headwaters of the Everglades National Wildlife Refuge." The acquisition would cost $700 million ... More >>

Gov. Scott Presents Plan for Everglades Restoration -- Meaning More Engineering

​The Everglades is too far gone for anyone to let it take its natural course. South Florida's entire inland economy depends on a water system that stays around the same level all year long, avoids flooding communities (cough, Weston, cough) that are stupidly built in the natural flow of water from ... More >>

Belle Glade Commissioner Speaks Up About "Slum Living Conditions" for Poorest Workers

Belle Glade is a small outpost nestled among the cane fields near the southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee. "Muck City," as it's also called, houses a large number of the low-wage workers who tend the fields and produce America's largest supply of sugar cane.Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum ... More >>

Waste Management Goes Organic

Photo © London Permaculture/Flickr​ Yep, you heard that right. Waste Management Inc., the largest trash collector and processor in the United States, is opening up an organic recycling facility just south of Lake Okeechobee. The facility is designed to process food, yard waste, and clean wood int ... More >>

A Mayor Named Sue

They just voted Sue Gunzburger the new Broward mayor to replace Ken Keechl. Hey, it was her turn. Commissioner Kristin Jacobs made a very lame motion for Gunzburger, saying that "when each jewel is allowed to shine, the whole crown shines." Yuck. Out with the old, in with the ... More >>

State Probe Into Acreage Cancer Cluster Is Over, but Lawyers Keep On Digging

​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

"Cane" at Florida Stage Creates a New Foundation for Florida Crime and Literature

​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

Mango Farm Tour at Erickson Farms Sunday -- a Family Day Out

​The 99-year-old Erickson Farms in Canal Point opens its gates to the public on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for its annual Farm Tour. The free tour features rides among the mango groves -- 40 acres of them -- and around the other tropical trees growing on the other 20 acres.Kim Erickson, one of the ... More >>

Morning Juice: World Cup Fever abates; billionaire sex offender off probation

​​South Florida employers might notice fewer sick days among their minions now that the World Cup is finally over. The Spain-over-Holland victory may be good news for the Boss Man, but not for those folks who finally understand what all the fuss is over "soccer." In other news: A Coral S ... More >>

Pro Football Player From Pompano Beach Weathers Hardship in Home

Flickr: hbs34Tyrone Carter, celebrating the Steelers' 2009 Super Bowl victory over the Arizona Cardinals​Where do you start with the Tyrone Carter story? Probably in Pompano Beach, where he was one of five children in a three-bedroom home, raised by his grandmother because his parents had drug pr ... More >>

Daybreak

Flickr: zensartLake Okeechobee​

Who'll Mind the Middens?

Davenport shows off an ancient smoke-houseA bunch of Palm Beach County employees may be slated to become antiquated relics: Palm Beach County commissioners voted to eliminate the jobs of 141 county workers Monday, hoping what they save on salaries will help offset $133 million in lost property-tax r ... More >>

South Florida's Best Fishing Hole, the L-67A Canal, Falls Victim to Environmentalists

Davenport shows off an ancient smoke-houseA bunch of Palm Beach County employees may be slated to become antiquated relics: Palm Beach County commissioners voted to eliminate the jobs of 141 county workers Monday, hoping what they save on salaries will help offset $133 million in lost property-tax r ... More >>

Hog Huntin'

A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

Sugar Daddy

For bailing out Big Sugar, Charlie Crist gets a hero's medal. Sweet!

Manee Nanny

Coddle the Cows

Help Team Downsized

Coddle the Cows

The Senses Say

Fort Liquordale Forever

See You Later, Navigator

Even when your kid is one of the NBA's finest, the cops can heist your car

Chief Walking Eagle

Robb Tiller went from rags to riches and right back after 15 years spinning deals around the Seminole

The Book of Ruth

He plays small-town, big-time football. But is that enough?

Wild and Dirty

Hemmed in, polluted, under police guard, the New River is still as untamed as it gets in Fort Lauderdale

Best Place to Ride a Bicycle

Everglades Holiday Park

Best Place to See Lake Okeechobee

Port Mayaca

Death and Doubts

Ray Golden's hanging was a national curiosity. Maybe his legacy will be social justice.

Letters for August 8, 2002

A dancing dilemma

Letters for June 13, 2002

Geriatrics, arise!

Baby Doll

Sara Lee Creech of Belle Glade tells a long-forgotten chapter of civil rights history

Rabbit Run

In western Palm Beach County, the sugar harvest also brings a bumper crop of bunnies

A Bunker in Boca

High prices. Impressive gadgets. Even when it comes to terrorism, Boca is tops.

A Single Hair

After a severely flawed trial, Michael Rivera was convicted of killing a little girl. New DNA evidence may help him.

Best Not-So-Cheap Thrill

Skydive America Palm Beach

Train in Vain

Millionaire Charles Croffard Dockery dreams of creating a high-speed bullet train in Florida. Sound crazy? Wait until you hear the details.

Poverty's Paradise

Staggering unemployment, city hall ablaze, ashes falling like snow -- it must be South Bay

A Portable Feast

It's not just the food that draws an interesting crowd to this lunch wagon by the Everglades

Take It to the Ribbit

Old-school frogger Norman Padgett may be the last of a dying breed: He makes a living off our slimy, fly-eating friends

Best Hike/Broward County

Florida Scenic Trail, Section Two

The Redemption of Crime Boy

Former criminal-in-training Percy Campbell reclaimed his life and now illuminates a better way to handle hard-core juvenile delinquency

A Natural Alliance

Buck Island Ranch is home to the threatened caracara, and it's a laboratory where ranchers and conservationists are learning to work together

Willie Gary's Sugar Daddies

Why is Stuart's revered black superlawyer, champion of the little guy, defending Big Sugar against its own workers? Money.

Best Scenic Drive

Fort Lauderdale to Lake Okeechobee by levee

Chute to Kill

In October a skydiver named Mike McDonald made a fatal leap. He was the third client of Skydive Palm Beach to die in a year.

A Southern Belle in Black and White

The City of Belle Glade may be forced to annex the Okeechobee Center and put an end to alleged discrimination against its mostly black residents

Undercurrents

The City of Belle Glade may be forced to annex the Okeechobee Center and put an end to alleged discrimination against its mostly black residents

Trailblazers

The City of Belle Glade may be forced to annex the Okeechobee Center and put an end to alleged discrimination against its mostly black residents

Enough to Make You Sick

The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

The Hunted

Tracking animals in the Everglades is a tiring, maddening business. Which is just how a decreasing number of hunters like it.

Deep in the Heart of Deerfield

Tracking animals in the Everglades is a tiring, maddening business. Which is just how a decreasing number of hunters like it.