Interest in the topic is high based on survey participation. Monday's meeting gives residents time with county staff who are creating the plan.

The City of Milton is celebrating Independence Day this year with Riverfest 2025. The event is free to the public and will ...

Tuesday was a joyous June morning for both vacationer Bekki Kennedy and a manatee she spotted frolicking in the waters south of La Rua Street.

In our region, manatees have been reported as far north as the Blackwater River in Milton." In 2021, the Panhandle Manatee Program was formed to expand the state's sighting network into the Panhandle.

And sure enough, "in our region, manatees have been reported as far north as the Blackwater River in Milton." Manatee sighting: Herd of 19 manatees spotted in Navarre Beach.

Jason L. Pickles, now incarcerated at Blackwater River Corrections Facility in Milton, named Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd as a defendant, along with Polk deputies, a registered nurse and Yes ...

In June 2020, Florida environmental regulators ordered the city to cease discharging wastewater into the nearby Blackwater River in two phases. The city was to reduce treated wastewater discharges by ...

The Blackwater River in the Panhandle is a popular paddling destination. Milton’s sewer plant dumps its treated effluent directly into the river. (Photo via Visit Florida) I’m back in the Panhandle ...

The Florida Department of Environmental Procrasti — er, excuse me, “Protection” — has ordered Milton to stop dumping its treated effluent into the Blackwater River by the end of 2025.

Hurricane Milton previously reached as high as a Category 5 over the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward Florida's central west coast.