An effort to impose stricter penalties on reckless boaters, spurred by a 2022 crash in the Florida Keys that resulted in the ...

As Fitzgerald recounted Sailorman’s story, Cisco the parrot demanded to be included. He walked from his cage, said “UP!” to ...

Two years after 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez was killed in a boating accident in Key Largo, her parents presented a bill in her ...

Two and a half years after the death of their 17-year-old daughter, Andy and Melissa Fernandez are pushing lawmakers to ...

State lawmakers are moving a bill that would require more people to get a boater safety card and increase penalties for ...

Legislators propose stiffer penalties and boater education. Florida leads the nation in boater registration and crashes. 83% of boating crashes occur by drivers with no boating education.

FWC photo The captain of a diving boat has been found guilty of seaman’s manslaughter after one of his passengers died ...

A woman was bitten on the elbow by an alligator while she was boating in Florida, officials said. The woman was paddling at Tiger Creek Canal in Polk County at the time of the incident on Monday, the ...

The boat eventually capsized ... It would require anyone who hasn’t lived in Florida for five years to get a boater safety certificate. Right now, people born before January 1, 1988, don ...