The Trump administration has made several changes to the Endangered Species Act, which environmentalists warn could harm vulnerable species. New rules no longer grant automatic protections to ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County commissioners recently approved an investment of $24 million into the county’s parks. Recently, mornings have been really busy for crews working at Manatee County ...

HOPEWELL, Va. — A Virginia woman says she experienced a once-in-a-lifetime encounter Saturday when she spotted a manatee swimming the Appomattox River near the Hopewell marina. Dawnn Thornton told CBS ...

Late Sunday night, the results came down: the Florida state senate voted to approve the transfer of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee to New College of Florida, pending approval of the ...

From the window of his second floor office in the Manatee Performing Arts Center, producing artistic director Rick Kerby can see his company’s future under construction. Kerby leads the Manatee ...

A juvenile manatee named "Melby" was released after being rescued in February from a Melbourne Beach storm drain. The manatee recovered at SeaWorld in Orlando from being underweight and having ...

Along the warm waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast lives a creature so gentle that sailors once mistook it for a mermaid. Slow-moving, peaceful and curious, manatees have glided through rivers and ...

The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens will open its new Manatee River Habitat and VyStar SkyScape Entrance on March 6, 2026. A $3 million donation from J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver helped fund the new ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A manatee that got stuck in a Florida storm drain while seeking warmer waters is on the mend at SeaWorld Orlando after a coordinated rescue effort. Subscribe to read this story ...

A manatee that got stuck in a Florida storm drain while seeking warmer waters is now on the mend at SeaWorld Orlando after a large effort to rescue it. Multiple fire rescue units and officials from ...