OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (CBS12 ... K-9 units, the Indian River County Sheriff's Office, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service and a helicopter from the ...

Lake Okeechobee, just a few miles south of Osceola ... and the vegetation is so thick that you can’t fish outside those trails. There are good bass biting wherever you find eelgrass.

It’s the question Bryton Shockley, a fourth-generation commercial fisherman who’s been fishing in Lake Okeechobee his entire life, asked himself after pulling up a fish Wednesday that appeared ...

Those fish are threatened by Lake Okeechobee discharges along with other pollution runoff throughout the Treasure Coast. Stuart City Commissioner Mike Meier is on board with the push to put these ...

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (CBS12) — An early-morning blaze entirely engulfed the Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge near Okeechobee on Friday. At about 3 a.m., Okeechobee County Fire Rescue arrived at the ...

People shouldn't eat fish caught anywhere in Lake Okeechobee after a blue-green algae bloom near the center tested positive for hazardous toxin levels, an Audubon Florida biologist said Monday.

Is it time for the Florida Department of Health and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to consider restrictions on fish consumption from Lake Okeechobee and other bodies ...