Miccosukee Tribe

In the fading daylight, 22 miles west of Krome Avenue, an armed, uniformed Miccosukee security officer idled inside a white SUV just south of the state road that knifes though the vast Everglades. He stopped each car that turned onto Loop Road, a...

One year after Florida’s $197 million land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp., the 26,800 acres of farmland that was supposed to mean a new direction for Everglades restoration remains citrus groves and sugar cane. The South Florida Water Management...

Florida needs to do more to address polluting phosphorus flowing into the northern reaches of the Everglades, but shouldn’t face punishment for not yet meeting clean-up thresholds, according to a federal court ruling released Friday. U.S....

In the 1960s and '70s, Lee Tiger performed with Steve Winwood, the Allman Brothers and other rock legends. Tiger says he was able to avoid the hard drugs that destroyed so many other musicians of the era, although he admits he was no angel, and remains...

South Florida water managers on Friday opted not to use what was likely their last chance to back out of a $197 million Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. After more than two years of legal fights and financial problems, the South...

Tea Party activists who preach fiscal responsibility are willing to sacrifice $10 million of South Florida taxpayers??? money to try to scrap a $197 million Everglades restoration land deal. Tea Party protests failed to stop the South Florida Water...

The latest sequel of "Honey, I Shrunk the Everglades Plan" premiered last week to rave reviews. It was the most entertaining installment yet. As you may recall, Charlie Crist announced his original "I Saved the Everglades" plan back in June 2008. He...

Let the tea leaf reading begin. The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday waded into the nearly two-year political fight over Gov. Charlie Crist???s high-priced Everglades restoration land deal. Those for and against the $536-million, 73,000-acre land deal...

Gov. Charlie Crist Wednesday reappointed Broward County???s representative to the South Florida Water Management District board and added two new faces to help direct the agency that guards against flooding, protects drinking water supplies and leads...

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday announced that on April 7 it would hear the legal challenge to Gov. Charlie Crist???s pending $536 million Everglades restoration land deal. The land deal, first proposed in June 2008, calls for South Florida......

Tack on another $12 million to the taxpayers' tab for the cost of a massive, unfinished reservoir rendered obsolete by a proposed half-billion-dollar Everglades-restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. A suggested $12 million settlement to terminate...

A judge's ruling Wednesday kept alive Gov. Charlie Crist's bid for a half-billion-dollar Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. But Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Donald Hafele struck down the proposal to borrow as much as $2.2...