Lake Apopka

The St. Johns River Water Management District will not pay to appraise land sought by the West Orange Airport Authority to lengthen a runway for business jets at a controversial site north of Lake Apopka. "The district typically does not fund property...

Cities in west Orange and east Lake counties are lining up to oppose the proposed site of a business-jet airport that the West Orange Airport Authority hopes to build as an economic-development engine for the area. Oakland in Orange County and...

The water level of Lake Apopka has dropped too low, prompting regional water managers to stop any water from flowing out to the Harris Chain of Lakes. TheSt. Johns River Water Management Districtstopped water discharges on April 27 through two dams in...

Skip Goerner, chairman of the Harris Chain of Lakes Restoration Council, worries about the potential harm to the lakes caused by the drought the area has been experiencing. "This will impact our fisheries and the ability of fish to spawn, as well as...

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm about a proposed airport near Lake Apopka. The project should concern not just environmentalists, but anyone else who pays taxes. An authority the Legislature created to develop an airport in west Orange County...

Oakland's town council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday opposing a proposed runway expansion at Orlando North Airpark, the West Orange Airport Authority's preferred site for an aviation center north of Lake Apopka. The resolution, the first...

On the list of top Central Florida tourist attractions, the roseate spoonbill and the snail kite aren't likely to ever rank higher than Mickey Mouse or Harry Potter. Still, some civic leaders and economic-development officials are banking that those...

The sickly Lake Apopka has been healing at a snail's pace despite undergoing some of the more costly environmental rehabilitations in Florida history. So a state agency is thinking about speeding up the process by encouraging an aggressive, aquatic...

Two Sumter County men, Robert "Bo" Martin Duval Christopher Cork Scroggins, were greeted by wildlife officials early Thursday morning as they came ashore in their airboat on Lake Apopka with a couple of sacks full of recently hatched alligators, according...

Interested in the health of the Harris Chain of Lakes? If so, you may want to check out an informational video produced by the Lake County Water Authority that discusses the positive impact of the authority's Nutrient Reduction Facility on the water...

With the St. Johns River Water Management District set to replace its ousted executive director this week, efforts by its board members to remold the powerful environmental agency into a smaller operation on friendlier terms with developers and...