Summer is blue-green algae season, and the potentially toxic mess is starting to show up in various places around south Florida and in the Lake Okeechobee system. From the heart of the Everglades ...

Brandon Bowman said at a Rivers Coalition meeting in Stuart Thursday. What are Lake Okeechobee discharges? Risks include ...

Huge green blooms now regularly infest much of Lake Okeechobee’s 730-square-mile surface during the summer, producing toxic vapors and waterborne poisons potent enough to kill pets, or send ...

FT. PIERCE, Fla.— Conservation groups sued three federal agencies today for failing to address harm to Florida’s endangered species from Lake Okeechobee releases containing toxic algae. Today’s ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is ending dry season releases that give the lake a chance to recovery from high water ...

Freshwater releases from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie Estuary will stop this weekend for the first time in over three ...

Lake O discharges to the St. Lucie River could end soon. Nearly 75 billion gallons of water has flowed into the river since discharges began Dec. 7. Army Corps Col. Brandon Bowman plans to attend ...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — Friends of the Everglades is working to acquire 100,000 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee to restore the flow of clean water South. They're calling this mission ...

More than a century ago, the Everglades were drained for development, agriculture and, subsequently, flood control. A network of canals, levees and water-control structures has fundamentally changed ...

Lake Okeechobee discharges began Dec. 7 and will end Saturday. Nearly 84 billion gallons of water has flowed through the St. Lucie Lock & Dam in Stuart since discharges began. The "lake recovery ...