Following last summer's low-key fiasco to put golf courses, pickleball courts and hotels in nine of Florida's most popular state parks, state Sen. Gayle Harrell filed a bill to protect our beloved ...

"We’re deeply grateful for their enduring commitment and proud to stand beside them and to honor them...Together, we remain resolute in defending our nation’s cultural and natural heritage for current ...

Spending time in our country’s national parks offers a powerful reminder of nature’s ability to uplift and inspire. In light of recent political developments that have raised concerns about the future ...

Sen. Gayle Harrell and Rep. John Snyder have filed the State Park Preservation Act. The goal is to protect state parks for being developed with hotels, golf courses, pickle ball courts or other ...

Six weeks ago, Florida Opinion journalists of the USA Today Network asked you, our readers, to join us in a legislative advocacy campaign to protect and preserve our beloved state parks. And you ...

We are blessed to have one of the largest state park systems in the country with 175 state parks, including over 815,000 acres and 101 miles of beach. It has been recognized nationally as one of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A federal judge has denied a request to halt construction on the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park after a Chicago park advocacy group filed a new federal lawsuit. On Thursday ...

Back in March, a group called Concerned Citizens for Mercer Island Parks created a petition designed to preserve Mercer Island’s parks and open spaces for “park use” only. For the Concerned Citizens, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some things divide us as Floridians. We live in times that seem to engender great division or controversy. Florida is a huge state ...

Protect the beauty of places like Jonathan Dickinson State Park I've been a permanent resident of Florida for over seventy years. My wife and I added to our bucket list to visit each of Florida's ...