Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off ...

In a rare display of unity, all 28 of Florida’s U.S. House members and both U.S. senators joined in a bipartisan letter ...

Florida's Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow ...

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be opened to offshore drilling.

Crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion April 20, 2010, ...

Florida lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing back on a plan by the Trump administration for new offshore oil drilling.

Florida's entire U.S. congressional delegation on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to leave their state out of a plan by ...

The Interior Department announced a second sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf, set for March. The sales stop at the Florida-Alabama state line.

A contentious issue that's been fought off several times over the decades, drilling off the Southwest Florida coast is not a popular idea here.

“It affects tourism, and more importantly, it’s just bad for the environment,” said GOP Rep. Vern Buchanan.

Drilling in the Eastern Gulf could forever change Northwest Florida. It's a fear shared by the vast majority of Floridians ...