The current drawdown is scheduled to continue through March 2026. "For far too long, the Rodman Dam has blocked the historic ...

Is it time to tear down a nearly 60-year-old dam blocking flow from the north-flowing Ocklawaha River to the St. Johns River? Among the projects awaiting decisions in the Florida Legislature hopper, ...

There’s a movement in Citrus County to rename the Cross Florida Barge Canal. The proclamation was raised during last Wednesday’s county commission meeting to rename it the American Freedom Canal, as ...

Florida’s longest-running environmental dispute — well, except for the Everglades, of course — gained a new chapter when Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $6.25 million that the Legislature budgeted for ...

Maybe it’s because there has been so much other headline-making news coming out of Tallahassee this legislative session. But one long-running Florida controversy — something that has led to thousands ...

Two Florida congressmen said Wednesday they have settled their differences over the Cross Florida Barge Canal, opening the way for development of a 115-mile long recreation and conservation corridor ...

TALLAHASSEE — A decades-old fight about possibly tearing down North Florida’s Rodman dam and restoring the Ocklawaha River is flaring again. Sen. Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach, on Thursday pushed back ...

Expect to see a lot more barges crawling along the Cross Florida Barge Canal this year. Independent Aggregates, which mines raw materials in northwest Citrus and then loads them onto barges for ...