TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The 2022 Florida Skiff Challenge is underway. The nonprofit Captains for Clean Water hosts the annual event to raise awareness about the need to restore and protect Florida’s ...

TALLAHASSEE-- Wildlife officials want to speed up the process of removing abandoned and storm-damaged boats from state waters, while complimenting residents for efforts to secure vessels ahead of ...

As the city of Pensacola seeks a $53 million Triumph Gulf Coast Grant to upgrade and redevelop the Port of Pensacola, one of its partners, Streamline Boats of Northwest Florida, is under the spotlight ...

Squatters in Florida are increasingly moving into derelict boats dumped along the coast, according to authorities working to clear the boats and squatters. "We’ve seen a tremendous increase, actually, ...

Wildlife officials want to speed up the process of removing abandoned and storm-damaged boats from state waters, while complimenting residents for efforts to secure vessels ahead of Hurricane Idalia.

TALLAHASSEE - Owners of boats at risk of becoming derelict would be able to rid themselves of the vessels at no cost under a state program. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on ...

Vagrants in South Florida this winter are increasingly moving aboard derelict boats sitting along the coast, in a new squatter “phenomenon” that only surfaced for the local sheriff’s office in the ...

In August, Florida Fish and Wildlife police inspecting a Middle Keys harbor popular with “liveaboards” — people who live on their boats — ended up arresting two men. Officers determined that their ...