Crews were sent to the Newman Drive wildfire in the Picayune Strand State Forest just after noon on Monday, and they say by 3 p.m. it had grown to 100 acres. The fire was only 15% contained as of ...

Note: This story was first published in August 2019 in Eliot Kleinberg’s Florida Time column. Officially, it’s just a stretch of Interstate 75, which runs some 1,800 miles from the Miami area to the ...

NAPLES, Fla. – Florida's Department of Transportation shut down part of Interstate 75 early Thursday due to heavy smoke from a wildfire that has exploded to more than 30,604 acres in South Florida ...

The wildfire near Alligator Alley exploded to over 1,500 acres and remains only 15% contained. Thick smoke plumes are visible from I-75 traffic cameras near the western end of Alligator Alley. Ground ...