TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is responding to a boating incident near Egmont Key. According to the FWC, officers are on the way. Hiker stumbles upon phone, sees recording of woman go missing in river “This is an active call, and we are working diligently to gather all pertinent […]
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers made 15 arrests over Memorial Day weekend for drunk boaters in its Northwest Region. Over the course of the three-day holiday weekend, FWC reported they removed 15 operators from boats in 16 counties spanning Escambia to Jackson County for boating under the influence. Nine of those arrests were […]
PANAMA CITY — Memorial Day weekend brought a sobering experience for more than a dozen boaters across northwest Florida. According to a Thursday press release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the organization’s northwest region arrested 15 people over the holiday weekend for operating a boat under the influence. Of the arrests, five […]
Investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Tuesday located a boat in Coral Gables that they say fits the description of the boat that struck and killed a 15-year-old Ransom Everglades student off Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach last weekend. The boat was docked on Tuesday behind the home of Carlos and Magaly […]
A girl has died after a boat hit her and sped away while she was water skiing near Key Biscayne on Saturday afternoon, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Law enforcement agencies are asking for the public’s help to find the boat that hit the girl, whose name and age have not […]
FWC to meet Wednesday to discuss possible toll road near Split Oak Forest Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to release conservation land to allow a toll road to be built through Split Oak Forest. The vote will determine the future of a proposed Osceola Parkway Extension that will […]
One person was taken to a hospital Thursday afternoon after authorities say a boat crashed into the Sanibel Causeway. Hailee Seely, spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the crash happened around 3:30 p.m., when authorities received a report of a single-vessel accident near the southwest side of the Sanibel Causeway. The […]
An employee at Kowiachobee Animal Preserve faces a legal trouble after authorities say she allowed several relatives to access an enclosure with two tigers and pet them, captured in a social media video that went viral. An employee at a Collier County wildlife preserve faces a citation after authorities say she allowed several relatives to […]
Both boats were packed with passengers. Both struck fixed channel markers at high speed. Both collisions left one person dead and others injured. And both were investigated by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers. Two shattering boat crashes, more than a year and 100 miles apart in South Florida, share compelling similarities. But the […]
The Florida Wildlife Conservation found two bodies that were missing from a small boat located in a Hastings pond on Saturday. Around 10 a.m. Sunday, two of the three Hispanic males were found dead. Read: Four-year-old child dies in a hit-and-run on Merrill Road, JSO is still investigating Florida Wildlife Conservation says they are looking […]