Hurricane Irma

Researchers say the round-the-clock nature of storm reporting and increased exposure from phones and social media can fuel stress.

Power outages that followed Hurricane Irma affected 28,000 residents of Florida's nursing homes — and led to a 25% increase in deaths a week after the storm made landfall in September 2017.

Navigating the Florida Keys can be a challenge — one that Hurricane Irma made even more difficult.

U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas last week ended the case after attorneys for The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills and the Department of Health and Human Services agreed to the dismissal.

A University of Miami study published this month found that while other sharks flee hurricanes, tiger sharks stayed put when Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas in 2016.

A new study by the nonprofit news service Climate Central presents another grim outlook for the elderly in South Florida: more nursing homes and assisted living facilities at risk from flooding than other coastal states.

Researchers found that the number of nursing home deaths within 30 and 90 days of Hurricane Irma is more than double the number of deaths reported by the CDC for the entire population of Florida.

Monday’s decision came more than three years after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air-conditioning system at the nursing home.

The Florida Keys has been battered by hurricanes, flooded by sea level rise and is gentrifying quickly. But one state lawmaker from Naples wants to add…

Authorities say the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general will be reviewing “questionable invoices" from three South Florida cities for…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that more than $44 million in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding has been awarded to 11...

There's a big pot of money coming to Florida from the federal government to help communities hit hard by recent hurricanes be more resilient in future...