The Rodman/Kirkpatrick Dam, an early piece of the never-completed Cross Florida Barge Canal, flooded this swampy landscape in 1968. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has coordinated ...

Myers and her nonprofit, formerly led by longtime fellow advocate Margaret Spontak, maintain that reuniting the rivers will ...

Is it time to tear down a nearly 60-year-old dam blocking flow from the north-flowing Ocklawaha River to the St. Johns River? Among the projects awaiting decisions in the Florida Legislature hopper, ...

Members of the House Budget Committee hosted a reading of House Bill 981 on Tuesday afternoon, where it received overwhelming ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed funding previously approved for the restoration of the Ocklawaha River. Restoring the river would reconnect it to Silver Springs and the St. Johns River, potentially ...

A House subcommittee unanimously approved a bill to restore the Ocklawaha River that drew strong praise from ...

Maybe it’s because there has been so much other headline-making news coming out of Tallahassee this legislative session. But one long-running Florida controversy — something that has led to thousands ...

As a lifelong Jacksonville resident and passionate sportsman, I understand the deep connection between our waterways, local communities and economy. For more than 50 years, the Kirkpatrick Dam — a ...

A bill with implications for Marion and Putnam counties is scheduled to go to committee next week in the state senate.

The new legislation follows Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state budget veto last June of $6.25 million for restoring the river. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Republican committee chairs in the state House and Senate ...

INTERLACHEN, Fla.— Matt Keene’s Prius looks out of place among the half dozen pickup trucks on the sandy bank of the Ocklawaha River. It looks stranger still when he pops the trunk, heaves out a glass ...