Recent samples from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, show natural, background levels in Lee and ...

Low concentrations of the toxin were detected this past week at New Pass Dock in Sarasota Bay, on the north end of Lido Key.

Red tide has been detected in Southwest Florida and offshore in some areas from south Sarasota County to Pinellas, and ...

Stretches of the debris-strewn beaches of Southwest Florida, still recovering from Hurricane Milton, are now littered with ...

Just last week moderate to high levels of red tide were being reported between the St. Petersburg-Tampa Bay area south to Bonita Springs. Stiff winds out of the east have kept the bloom patches ...

The Tampa Bay Times asked scientists, oceanographers and state biologists, who agreed that conditions here look clear. Last week, state water experts detected the organism that causes red tide ...

Study examines 16 years of Caloosahatchee River water releases and red tide events; finds 77% of variability in red tide events can be linked to river ...

Red tide has been lingering in the Tampa Bay area for weeks, and the toxic algae has made its way to Lee County waters in recent days, according to satellite imagery from the National Oceanic and ...

When Hurricane Milton tore through the Tampa Bay area, it brought several inches ... Could Milton's stirring in the Gulf of Mexico lead to red tide? As the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

Red tide is a naturally occurring type of algae ... storm surge and rainfall flooding would have flushed extra nutrients from land into Tampa Bay and the Gulf. It seems no coincidence that blooms ...