The well site is located within a 11-mile stretch that Florida's conservation land buying program may buy.

A coalition of about 70 environmental groups commandeered the front entrance of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Monday to protest the department’s decision to permit an exploratory ...

Plans to drill for oil along the Apalachicola River have Franklin County Sheriff A.J. "Tony" Smith sounding the alarm of a potential death blow to a sparsely populated region increasingly dependent on ...

The Apalachicola River descends 106 miles across the Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico as the creator and caretaker of Florida’s largest forested floodplain, sandbar beaches, breezy bluffs, coastal ...

This story was reported during our election road trip to states across the country ahead of the 2018 midterms. Check out all of our election coverage. Florida's Apalachicola River is one of its most ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A coalition of environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts who love the Apalachicola River will soon take to the state government to call for the end of a permit for ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A bipartisan effort to ban oil drilling near the Apalachicola River took another step forward Tuesday. The bill unanimously passed the House State Affairs Committee Tuesday, ...

After decades of legal battles between Florida, Georgia and Alabama over a river system they share, an environmental group on Tuesday warned that the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Basin is “at the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for Florida's lawsuit against Georgia over the allocation of water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. The U.S. solicitor general said a ...

River time. In 2019, it didn’t take long for our group of 16 Apalachicola RiverTrekkers to adjust to a river lifestyle for five days in October. During the day, most of it involved paddling for an ...