After a veto setback this week, proponents of restoring the natural flow of the Ocklawaha River are not standing down in their fight to dismantle the Rodman Dam. As fishermen in the Rodman Reservoir ...

Built in 1968, the Kirkpatrick Dam and Rodman Reservoir block the Ocklawaha River from flowing freely, via Florida State Parks. Quality Journalism for Critical Times Pens can be tricky. Once I was ...

TALLAHASSEE — A decades-old fight about possibly tearing down North Florida’s Rodman Dam and restoring the Ocklawaha River is flaring again. Sen. Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach, on Thursday pushed back ...

Maybe it’s because there has been so much other headline-making news coming out of Tallahassee this legislative session. But one long-running Florida controversy — something that has led to thousands ...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday vetoed more than $50 million in legislative water projects in the 2025-26 Florida budget, along with $6.25 million for Ocklawaha River restoration.

If you’ve never fished for bass or enjoyed watching the abundant wildlife on north-central Florida's famed Rodman Reservoir, you should. And if some day you want to, I'd suggest trying to save this ...

For Florida’s leaders, a few controversies stand as bright-line tests: There is a wrong side and a right side, with little gray in between. The fate of the Ocklawaha River, strangled for six decades ...

Lawmakers last year passed a budget that included $500,000 for the University of Florida Water Institute to do an assessment of restoring the river or retaining the dam, which also is known as the ...

Tydell Janard Smith, 31, was arrested for boating under the influence after a passenger on his boat fell overboard and died. Wendy Mooney, 50, was struck by the boat's propeller and died from her ...

A Marion County boating accident left one woman dead on Sunday afternoon, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Around 1:30 p.m., FWC says officers responded to an ...