SILVER SPRINGS — Xiaoqian Huang’s recent trip from Beijing to Florida included a visit to Silver Springs State Park outside Ocala. "Beautiful,” is how he will describe the roughly 5,000-acre ...

We’re going to need a bigger canoe. A mammoth and aggressive alligator in Ocala National Forest has been attacking paddlers, ...

The town of Ocala, located in Marion County Florida, truly delivers on opportunities ... Ocala is also home to Silver Springs State Park, which is incredibly beautiful and full of fantastic ...

A large alligator forced the closure of Juniper Springs waterway in Ocala weeks after a deadly attack elsewhere in Central ...

OCALA, Fla. — A popular park in Ocala has closed after several sinkholes recently opened up. Ocala Wetland Recharge Park was temporarily closed due to multiple areas of ground subsidence and ...

It didn't have the pomp and circumstance that it deserved, but Gov. Ron DeSantis — albeit grudgingly — signed legislation to protect state parks.

With great fanfare and unanimous support, the Florida Legislature passed the State Park Preservation Act (Senate Bill 80) and sent it to the governor. Kudos to state Sen. Gayle Harrell ...

Florida Senate Bill 80, also known as the “State Park Preservation Act,” aims to protect Florida’s state parks from development. The bill, introduced by Republican state Sen. Gayle Harrell ...

A bill that would protect state parks from development has stalled in the Florida Legislature ... at places like Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, Anastasia State Park in St ...

Her district includes some of Florida’s first state parks, places with preservation efforts dating back to 1930s and the Civilian Conservation Corps: O’Leno State Park on the banks of the ...