The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers controls lake levels, and the agency has been making discharges to both coasts for months in ...

The West Regional Library is hosting a special screening of the NBC6 original documentary Bittersweet Muck on February ... along the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee where hard-working, passionate ...

Florida is home to some of the most dangerous places in America, including this unsuspecting lakeside city that has unusually ...

In the summer of 1928, heavy rainfall raised Lake Okeechobee’s water level three feet above normal. And in the fall, a hurricane smashed the coast of Florida. The impact flooded Lake Okeechobee.

“Red” Banks Jr. Born March 24, 1959, in Belle Glade, Florida, Bob was a “muck baby,” as children birthed near Lake Okeechobee were called, and he seemed to have the black soil of that ...