Dixie County, FL - A 2-year-old manatee stranded in a small Florida pond far from open water was rescued last week after the storm surge from Hurricane Helene carried it more than a mile inland.

Manatee County is slated to receive $252.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help the ...

Thousands of Manatee County property owners will soon receive letters that determine whether they will can repair their homes following hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton, or if they will need to ...

A juvenile manatee was rescued from ... due to the storm surge of Hurricane Helene. A hunter near the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area, in Dixie County, stumbled upon a 500-pound, 2-year-old ...